{"id":45,"date":"2009-01-21T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-01-21T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:09:00","slug":"an-amazing-new-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"An Amazing New America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jordantimes.com\/img\/4500\/4442.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jordantimes.com\/img\/4500\/4442.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I woke up this morning and turned on <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/01\/21\/a-major-bush-rule-gets-scrapped-by-obama\/\">CNN<\/a> like every other day before heading off to work. But it was a new day. It still seemed unreal to watch the coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2009\/01\/21\/african-blogosphere-on-obamas-inauguration\/\">inauguration<\/a> ceremony and celebration of the first <a href=\"http:\/\/thetowntalk.com\/article\/20090121\/NEWS01\/901210321\/-1\/rss\">Black President<\/a> of the United States. I know it is our new reality, however I felt a wonderful weirdness throughout the day. Did this really happen? I know it did, but it&#8217;s still just so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supershallow.com\/2009\/01\/20\/awesome-amazing-inspirational-sensational-obamas-speech\/\">amazing<\/a>. Maybe I need another few days to really soak it all in. <\/p>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Photo courtesy of AFP &#8211; Agence France Presse.<\/span>)<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fphilvelez.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D45&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=dark\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;height:20px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning and turned on CNN like every other day before heading off to work. But it was a new day. 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