{"id":1081,"date":"2009-01-20T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2009-01-20T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T18:41:11","slug":"120044-est-on-20-jan-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/120044-est-on-20-jan-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"12:00:44 EST on 20-Jan-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\/1232470844400.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/80859-2\/1232470844400.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 alt=\"Driving north on M-24 listening to the inaugeration of Barack Obama. Fourty four seconds before this photo was taken Obama legally became president.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Wanting to listen to the swearing in and inauguration speech of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\">the 44<sup><u>th<\/u><\/sup> President of the United States<\/a> I decided to do something which used to be quite typical for me: go for a long drive while listening to the radio and eating fast food.<\/p>\n<p>After picking up a veggie burger meal from Burger King I headed north on M-24 driving through suburban \/ rural southeast Michigan, looking at the sparking snow, listening to the radio, and eating my unhealthy meal. I don&#8217;t have much to say about the speeches, invocations, poems, compositions, and benedictions, except that I felt that it all had an overall message of difficulty ahead, a need for hard work, and a general belief that if people truly are willing to fix problems they can. Overall, I thought this was good.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and that photo? I took it just to show the sort of area I was driving through, but it just so happened to be at exactly 44 seconds after Barack Obama legally became president. Funny, that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting to listen to the swearing in and inauguration speech of the 44th President of the United States I decided to do something which used&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/120044-est-on-20-jan-2009\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12:00:44 EST on 20-Jan-2009<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}