{"id":1258,"date":"2009-01-20T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T23:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2009-01-22T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:35:04","slug":"president-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1258","title":{"rendered":"President Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, January 20th 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as our 44th President. If you missed the swearing in, you can see it on YouTube: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9j2z8vywY88[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pic2009.org\/blog\/entry\/president_obamas_inaugural_address\/\">text of his inauguration speech<\/a> online also.<\/p>\n<p>His team is not wasting time. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\">White House web site<\/a>, for example. You can read the blog and sign up for emailed updates about major decisions.\u00a0 Weekly videos are planned (for Saturday mornings). Under &#8220;About the White House&#8221; you can select &#8220;Presidents&#8221; and get to the official brief biography of President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The University Library has a couple of books by Obama if you&#8217;d like to get to know him a bit better: <strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream<\/span><\/strong> (2nd-floor Browsing Books E901.1.O23 A3 2006) and <strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance<\/span><\/strong> (2nd-floor Browsing Books E185.97.O23 A3 2004).<\/p>\n<p>Addendum:<br \/>\nYou can read the text of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/20text-poem.html\">Elizabeth Alexander&#8217;s reading<\/a> at the Inauguration, or see the video at YouTube:<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fFA6-RqQ4jM[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, January 20th 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as our 44th President. If you missed the swearing in, you can see it on YouTube: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9j2z8vywY88[\/youtube] You can read the text of his inauguration speech online also. His team is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1633,1448,1632,235,658,1634],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-inauguration","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-speeches","tag-web-sites","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}