{"id":10832,"date":"2009-01-21T18:45:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/another_first_obama_acknowledges_non_believers\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:45:14","slug":"another_first_obama_acknowledges_non_believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10832","title":{"rendered":"Another first: Obama acknowledges &#39;non-believers&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a morning of countless firsts in U.S. history, add this: Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural speech is the first time a president has ever explicitly acknowledged not only &#8220;Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus&#8221; but non-believers as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This inclusiveness is a signature moment in American inaugural history,&#8221; says David Domke, professor of communications at the University of Washington in Seattle, who has analyzed religious language in seven decades of inaugural and State of the Union addresses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-01-20-obama-non-believers_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a morning of countless firsts in U.S. history, add this: Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural speech is the first time a president has ever explicitly acknowledged not only &#8220;Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus&#8221; but non-believers as well. &#8220;This inclusiveness is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10832\">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":[39,40,42,616,155,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832","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=10832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}