{"id":1782,"date":"2008-11-04T23:56:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T07:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2008-11-04T23:56:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T07:56:24","slug":"united-states-of-america-a-day-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"United States of America &#8211; a day to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we elected Barack Obama our President.  <strong>WE<\/strong> elected him.<\/p>\n<p>As I listened to his speech, the tears began to flow.<\/p>\n<p>Tears of sorrow &#8211; for a time I remember so vividly.  A time when this nation &#8211; filled with so much hope &#8211; elected another young man who made history by being elected President &#8211; despite his religion.  John F. Kennedy was Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>Tears of relief &#8211; after living through eight years of George W. Bush &#8211; the most incompetent President we&#8217;ve ever had.<\/p>\n<p>Tears of joy for the power hope can bring to a people.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m deeply proud of our nation at this moment.  To elect a black man as President, in a country founded on the backs of black slaves, in a country that fought itself over slavery &#8211; gives me hope for not only our nation &#8211; but humanity as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>A miracle long in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we elected Barack Obama our President. WE elected him. As I listened to his speech, the tears began to flow. Tears of sorrow &#8211; for a time I remember so vividly. A time when this nation &#8211; filled with <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=1782\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}