{"id":453,"date":"2009-01-17T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/inspiration-express\/"},"modified":"2009-01-17T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T21:59:27","slug":"inspiration-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/inspiration-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promise to stop with the Obamarama&#8230;. soon. Not quite yet. <\/p>\n<p>Today, what made me cry, watching the Obama Express whistlestop tour&#8217;s stop in Baltimore:<\/p>\n<p>people clapping and yelling for the Pledge of Allegiance. The PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.<\/p>\n<p>I mean first of all, they knew and recited the words en masse, with feeling, unprompted.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe (probably) I&#8217;m overly pollyanna about this but &#8230; to me it says, people are proud to be American again. And for some, it&#8217;s been a really really long time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise to stop with the Obamarama&#8230;. soon. Not quite yet. Today, what made me cry, watching the Obama Express whistlestop tour&#8217;s stop in Baltimore: people clapping and yelling for the Pledge of Allegiance. The PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I mean first of all, they knew and recited the words en masse, with feeling, unprompted. Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,622],"tags":[677,205,50,399,449,986],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wash","category-words","tag-emotion","tag-energy","tag-love","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-the-pledge-of-allegiance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}