{"id":13133,"date":"2021-01-20T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13133"},"modified":"2021-01-20T18:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T00:00:18","slug":"a-new-day-joe-bidens-inaugauration-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13133","title":{"rendered":"A New Day &#8211; Joe Biden&#8217;s Inaugauration &#8211; 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/vUXaUi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/324\/19633568533_f8609d2bd1.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Biden\" width=\"500\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Public Domain photo by Jack Boardman on Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What a grand Inauguration we Americans had today to celebrate the election of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President on the same site that two weeks earlier a mob had invaded the Capitol and beat to death a policeman and injured many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/28SxaKb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/914\/43235095972_e01f466493.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at L.A.&#039;s Families Belong Together March\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Public Domain Photograph by Luke Harold on Flickr, Los Angeles, CA 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today though all traces of that was erased except for the thousands of National Guardsman and Police present to protect the event from more treasonous attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iBkEd3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49626670618_f61c3f6c92.jpg\" alt=\"20200304SM0432.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Photo by Library of Congress in Public Domain, March 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had some great speeches and some great songs by J-Lo and Lady Gaga but as an Oklahoman I was especially proud of Garth Brooks showing up in his Cowboy Tux, boots, jeans, and a sport coat with a big huge belt buckle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman performs her Independence Day poem\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2XafNPqKHs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As stirring and emotional as all that was it was Amanda Gorman, our National Youth Poet Laureate, gave a huge performance of her poem, &#8220;The Hill we Climb.&#8221; What a huge young talent  she is and so poised in her delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also great to see the previous Presidents mingling together afterwards. The Obama&#8217;s, the Bush&#8217;s, and the Clintons all seem to get along well together fine. Too bad that Jimmy Carter couldn&#8217;t make it. And Mike Pence, our former VP, showed a lot of class today by showing up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Biden went right to work issuing a bunch of Executive Orders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am thinking all this today is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a grand Inauguration we Americans had today to celebrate the election of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President on the same site that two weeks earlier a mob had invaded the Capitol and beat to death a policeman and injured many more. 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