{"id":554,"date":"2009-01-21T23:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2009-01-21T23:30:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:30:52","slug":"heres-to-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/heres-to-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s to President Obama!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/kyllan\/3216513135\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3384\/3216513135_26e7dcf486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was a wonderful celebration of a long journey (one that started long before President Obama&#8217;s announced his candidacy for President).\u00a0 It was such a wonderful thing to witness, whether in person or on television or the Internet.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed watching the events.\u00a0 Despite the fact I had to work, we have a television in our office and myself and several colleagues watched the ceremony in the midst of a busy work day.\u00a0 After the acceptance speech, I didn&#8217;t even have words to say.\u00a0 All I could do was reflect on such a powerful moment.<\/p>\n<p>Given the historic nature of the event and the excitement in the air, my sister and I decided to attend an Inaugural Ball here in Dallas at the House of Blues.\u00a0 We celebrated with food, dancing, entertainment, networking, and the hope of extraordinarily great things to come.\u00a0 We had a great time!\u00a0 I posted pictures on <a title=\"Inaugural Ball photo stream \" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/kyllan\/sets\/72157612803266667\/\" target=\"_blank\">my flickr page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was so motivated at work today while thinking about the aggressive agenda President Obama had today on day 1 of his new job.\u00a0 I was so inspired to push myself harder and I know I am not the only one who feels that way.\u00a0 I simply cannot wait to see what is\u00a0 in store during the Obama Administration.\u00a0 Being a political science major, I wish, just for this instance, that I was a member of the Executive Office of the President.\u00a0 How incredibly challenging, but wonderful that would be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a wonderful celebration of a long journey (one that started long before President Obama&#8217;s announced his candidacy for President).\u00a0 It was such a wonderful thing to witness, whether in person or on television or the Internet.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed watching the events.\u00a0 Despite the fact I had to work, we have a television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-8W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}