{"id":198,"date":"2009-01-20T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-09-06T23:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:23:46","slug":"inauguration-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/inauguration-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched from my little room on my old TV a great moment in history &#8211; the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. The prayer was inspiring. The music was moving. The swearing in was, well, a bit clumsy, but sincere nonetheless. A great start to a presidency with great potential.<\/p>\n<p>All of this progress is good, however let us not forget the state of the union. Obama&#8217;s repeated sounding of, &#8220;Things will get worse before they get better,&#8221; still applies. We have a long and hard road ahead of us as a nation. The strength of Obama is the inspiration and goodness that will trickle-down from the President&#8217;s bully pulpit to individual Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Let us not be fooled by the changing of the guard. While changing the name subsequent to &#8220;President&#8221; is significant, as I have often found in moving from one apartment to another, it doesn&#8217;t take long to find something wrong with the new place. And by the time my lease is up I can&#8217;t wait to move. I&#8217;m optimistic that Obama&#8217;s presidency will be different, but he has to do more than not be Bush.<\/p>\n<p>God Bless America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched from my little room on my old TV a great moment in history &#8211; the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. The prayer was inspiring. The music was moving. The swearing in was, well, a bit clumsy, but sincere nonetheless. A great start to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[78,100,24,99],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-78","tag-inauguration","tag-obama","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}