{"id":1370,"date":"2009-01-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/by-the-time-you-read-this-well-be-either-on-the-metro-or-already-down-town-we-dont-have-any-fancy-tickets-ive-had-those-pl\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:00:00","slug":"by-the-time-you-read-this-well-be-either-on-the-metro-or-already-down-town-we-dont-have-any-fancy-tickets-ive-had-those-pl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/by-the-time-you-read-this-well-be-either-on-the-metro-or-already-down-town-we-dont-have-any-fancy-tickets-ive-had-those-pl\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration Day: Dateline D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef010536e59a34970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Capital\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef010536e59a34970c \" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef010536e59a34970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Capital\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial;\">By the time you read this, we&#39;ll be either on the Metro or already downtown.&#0160; We don&#39;t have any fancy tickets; I&#39;ve had those plenty of times when I haven&#39;t cared nearly as much as I do this time, but credential or not, we&#39;re going.&#0160; As I told my friend Mom-101, who&#39;s so sad not to be here, I think there&#39;s an almost biological need to be part of this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial;\">I hope it&#39;s a wonderful day.&#0160; I hope that all the families and friends who have come here are safe, warm and inspired.&#0160; If I can get through I&#39;ll tweet all day; you can follow me on&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: blue;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/csamuels&#0160;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial;\"> Otherwise, watch this space.&#0160; Until then, maybe you want to read about my trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/dontgelyet.typepad.com\/dontgeltoosoon\/2008\/12\/john-kennedy-and-barack-obama-2-inaugurations-2-sets-of-challenges-and-2-generations-of-dreamers.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Kennedy Inauguration<\/a> and its relationship to this one.&#0160; I&#39;ll be back as soon as I can.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time you read this, we&#39;ll be either on the Metro or already downtown.&#0160; We don&#39;t have any fancy tickets; I&#39;ve had those plenty of times when I haven&#39;t cared nearly as much as I do this time, but credential or not, we&#39;re going.&#0160; As I told my friend Mom-101, who&#39;s so sad not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/by-the-time-you-read-this-well-be-either-on-the-metro-or-already-down-town-we-dont-have-any-fancy-tickets-ive-had-those-pl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inauguration Day: Dateline D.C.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[279,868,289,869,870],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-crowds","tag-inauguration","tag-inauguration-crowds","tag-mall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-m6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}