{"id":707,"date":"2009-01-20T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=707"},"modified":"2009-01-20T23:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T22:00:35","slug":"so-proud-to-be-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"so proud to be an American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tI couldn\u0092t be home tonight to watch President Obama take the oath of office.  So driving home, I started dialing around the radio, hoping to find something&#8230; maybe a station broadcasting bits of his speech that I\u0092d try to catch pieces of when the interpreter paused&#8230; What I found was a news station talking about our new president&#8230; and our old one.  I don\u0092t understand a lot of what\u0092s said on the radio.  But I clearly heard them call President Obama \u0093the President of all the world.\u0094   And I also heard them call President Bush a war-loving \u0093crazy.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>\tAnother American ISE told me today she\u0092d forgotten today was anything out of the ordinary.  That when French people said to her \u0093it\u0092s a really big day for your country,\u0094 she had to stop to figure out what they were talking about.  Forgot?  I do sometimes feel a little out of touch living here&#8230; but, please.<\/p>\n<p>\tSince getting Kaitlyn to bed, I\u0092ve been glued to the online coverage.  The speech was touching.  Watching the new President and his wife walk along Pennsylvania Avenue was something else.   But I don\u0092t know how long I\u0092ll be able to stay awake to watch the rest.  I did see the float from Illinois touting John Deere.  Good thing Bill had already gone to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u0092t be home tonight to watch President Obama take the oath of office. So driving home, I started dialing around the radio, hoping to find something&#8230; maybe a station broadcasting bits of his speech that I\u0092d try to catch pieces of when the interpreter paused&#8230; What I found was a news station talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}