{"id":27720,"date":"2013-01-20T19:13:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27720"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:53:19","slug":"obama-takes-oath-in-quiet-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27720","title":{"rendered":"Obama Takes Oath in Quiet Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama Takes Oath in Quiet Ceremony<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2013-01-20<\/p>\n

Brian Knowlton<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDoug Mills\/The New York Times<\/small><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 With only his family nearby, President Obama<\/a> was sworn into office in the White House<\/a> before noon on Sunday in advance of Monday\u2019s public pomp, the private moment forced by a rare quirk of the constitutional calendar but appropriately capturing the downsized expectations for his second term.<\/p>\n

Even the Monday festivities, with the traditional inaugural parade, balls and not least the re-enactment outside the Capitol of Mr. Obama\u2019s swearing-in, will be less spectacular than four years ago, when the new president embodied hope and change for most Americans at a time of global economic crisis and two wars. This year fewer parties are planned, and fewer people are expected to swarm the National Mall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The private but official swearing-in of the 44th president at 11:55 a.m. was just the seventh such event in history to be held before the public ceremony, and the first since Ronald Reagan\u2019s<\/a> second inaugural, each one occurring because the constitutionally mandated date for the inauguration fell on a Sunday. Recorded and televised minutes later, the simple scene suggested a couple marrying before a justice of the peace, with a big ceremony and party planned for later.<\/p>\n

Only Michelle Obama<\/a>, holding her family Bible, and the couple\u2019s daughters, Malia and Sasha<\/a>, stood beside Mr. Obama, in the grand Blue Room as he recited the oath specified in the Constitution and again administered to him by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…The president and his family later traveled to Washington to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church<\/a>, an historic church with a long record of activism against racism \u2014 it once harbored runaway slaves \u2014 to worship and to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a> The federal holiday honoring Dr. King<\/a> coincides this year with Inauguration Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The congregation was enthusiastic, according to pool reports, and the sermon ended with a boisterous call and response of \u201cForward\u201d \u2013 the president\u2019s one-word campaign slogan.<\/p>\n

These events took place mostly out of view of the hundreds of thousands of Americans, foreign visitors and dignitaries who have poured into Washington to be a part of the second inauguration of the nation\u2019s first African-American president, a more restrained affair than four years ago but still a resonant marker in the nation\u2019s history…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama Takes Oath in Quiet Ceremony The New York Times 2013-01-20 Brian Knowlton Doug Mills\/The New York Times WASHINGTON \u2014 With only his family nearby, President Obama was sworn into office in the White House before noon on Sunday in advance of Monday\u2019s public pomp, the private moment forced by a rare quirk of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[13438,13441,13440,2099,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-27720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-brian-knowlton","tag-john-g-roberts","tag-john-roberts","tag-michelle-obama","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51302,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720\/revisions\/51302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}