{"id":10824,"date":"2009-01-21T05:57:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T05:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_obama_sets_fresh_course_for_remaking_america\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T05:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T05:57:47","slug":"la_times_obama_sets_fresh_course_for_remaking_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10824","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Obama sets fresh course for &#39;remaking America&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office today as the nation&#8217;s 44th president &#8212; and the nation&#8217;s first black chief executive &#8212; and told Americans shaken by economic despair and war that shared sacrifice would be required to draw the nation back to prosperity and peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions &#8212; that time has surely passed,&#8221; Obama declared in a ringing inaugural address. &#8220;Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/washingtondc\/la-na-inauguration-obama21-2009jan21,0,6920269.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office today as the nation&#8217;s 44th president &#8212; and the nation&#8217;s first black chief executive &#8212; and told Americans shaken by economic despair and war that shared sacrifice would be required to draw<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10824\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,616,151,667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}