{"id":570,"date":"2009-01-20T19:47:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2009-01-20T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:50:28","slug":"thats-great-it-starts-with-an-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/thats-great-it-starts-with-an-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"“That’s great it starts with an earthquake…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may remember David’s post<\/a> that included a picture similar to this one. This picture was taken the morning after the Novemeber ’08 election as I was on my way out of town for a work trip. David and I (unknowingly) took pictures of the same sign–although different sides of the sign.<\/p>\n

\"Obama<\/p>\n

Now that Obama has been sworn in, I thought I’d post the picture I took. Unsurprisingly, the angle I captured includes a bit more commentary than David’s picture. While I don’t believe the world has magically changed with our new president, I do think this is a really important moment for the country, and I hope he’s able to take us in a more productive direction. I also hope that people’s unrealistic expectations of Obama don’t doom him to failure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may remember David’s post that included a picture similar to this one. This picture was taken the morning after the Novemeber ’08 election as I was on my way out of town for a work trip. David and I (unknowingly) took pictures of the same sign–although different sides of the sign.<\/p>\n

Now that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-9c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}