{"id":2529,"date":"2008-11-08T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T05:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2008-11-08T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T05:10:19","slug":"obamas-election-day-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/obamas-election-day-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Election Day Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has said it&#8217;s a tradition to play basketball on the morning of an election. So far, so good. Here are pics of President-Elect <a title=\"barack obama\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_self\">Barack Obama<\/a> getting in a round of hoops on the morning of November 4 (sourced from his <a title=\"barack obama photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barackobamadotcom\/\" target=\"_self\">campaign<\/a>). Obama is known to be a regular basketball player; he even played on his high school&#8217;s varsity team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obama-basketball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2530\" title=\"obama-basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obama-basketball.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Basketball is an incredibly beneficial workout, and one that isn&#8217;t monotonous or boring. You can engage with a friend or a group of people and walk away having had a fun and physically demanding workout. A man of <a title=\"obama's weight\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/presidential-dimensions-large-and-small\/\" target=\"_self\">Obama&#8217;s size<\/a> (180 pounds), can burn 669 calories during 60 minutes of half-court basketball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obama-election-day-basketball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2531\" title=\"obama-election-day-basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obama-election-day-basketball.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe he will get that indoor basketball court at the White House he&#8217;s been wishing for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/barack-obama-basketball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2532\" title=\"barack-obama-basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/barack-obama-basketball-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has said it&#8217;s a tradition to play basketball on the morning of an election. So far, so good. Here are pics of President-Elect Barack Obama getting in a round of hoops on the morning of November 4 (sourced from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/obamas-election-day-workout\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[149,326,2877,3677],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-barack-obama","tag-basketball","tag-calorie-counting","tag-diet-tv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}