{"id":399,"date":"2009-01-20T15:33:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/399"},"modified":"2009-01-20T15:33:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T22:33:44","slug":"music-to-my-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/music-to-my-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to my ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/inaug.jpg\" alt=\"inaug.jpg\" class=\"floatleft\" \/>What a great day.\u00c2\u00a0 A beautiful day.\u00c2\u00a0 A new beginning.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <em class=\"b\">Can you feel it? <\/em>Can you feel the weight of the past 8 years lifting?<\/p>\n<p>With tears in my eyes, I watched the inauguration of our 44th President&#8230; &#8220;<em class=\"b\">our present<\/em>&#8221; as my 4 years old granddaughter Kennedy says, and was filled with hope, gratitude and joy.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe the hopelessness and despair of the Bush era is over. And despite the mess we&#8217;re in economically, and in Iraq, I am so <em class=\"b\">excited about our future<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Obama has a huge task ahead &#8211; but he is the man we need to lead us through this&#8230;. inspire us to do our part in remaking our country.<\/p>\n<p>And can you believe <em class=\"b\">we get to listen to such an aritculate, intelligent, thoughtful president <\/em>(with a beautiful speaking voice) for the next 4 years?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been deprived the past 8 years.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m so happy I\u00c2\u00a0never had to hear GWBush say &#8220;nookulur&#8221; again.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As\u00c2\u00a0a unapologetic word nerd, I am nearly giddy with\u00c2\u00a0anticipation for what\u00c2\u00a0ear candy\u00c2\u00a0we&#8217;ll be enjoying\u00c2\u00a0throughout the presidency.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\">A few of my favorite passages from his speech:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;To the <span style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: medium none\" id=\"lw_1232483735_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Muslim world<\/span>, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world&#8217;s resources without regard to effect&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/45396000\/jpg\/_45396396_parade_ap226.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>I found myself tearing up again as I saw the reaction of the crowds as the first couple walked Pennsylvania Avenue.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect I&#8217;ll be teary much of the day.\u00c2\u00a0 And doesn&#8217;t Michelle have a <em class=\"b\">fabulous sense of style<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 Loving watching how colorfully and tastefully she and the girls dress.\u00c2\u00a0 Can hardly wait to see what she wears tonight.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Was there something particular in the day, in President Obama&#8217;s speech <em>(he&#8217;s our PRESIDENT!!!!!!) <\/em>that spoke to you today?\u00c2\u00a0 Anything that moved you?<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8211; and as another sign of hope &#8211; my little <em class=\"b\">hummingbird was back today<\/em> drinking nectar from my pansies.\u00c2\u00a0 I can\u00c2\u00a0 hardly believe he survived the last several weeks of bitter cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great day.\u00c2\u00a0 A beautiful day.\u00c2\u00a0 A new beginning.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Can you feel it? Can you feel the weight of the past 8 years lifting? With tears in my eyes, I watched the inauguration of our 44th President&#8230; &#8220;our present&#8221; as my 4 years old granddaughter Kennedy says, and was filled with hope, gratitude and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/music-to-my-ears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music to my ears<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}