{"id":27737,"date":"2013-01-20T21:51:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T21:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27737"},"modified":"2013-01-21T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:18:37","slug":"obama-sworn-in-for-second-term-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27737","title":{"rendered":"Obama sworn in for second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20130120-usa-barack-obama-sworn-second-term-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">Obama sworn in for second term<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\" target=\"_blank\">France 24<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">US President Barack Obama<\/a> on Sunday was sworn in for a second four-year term at a small, private ceremony at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a>. He will take the oath again on Monday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Capitol\" target=\"_blank\">Capitol<\/a> during a public swearing-in.<\/p>\n<p>A still-popular Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office for a second term on Sunday, facing a troubled future but hoping to leave behind a battering four years at the helm of a government mired in ugly political division.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen Obama first took office as the 44th U.S. president, many Americans hoped the symbolism of the first black man in the White House was a turning point in the country\u2019s deeply troubled racial history. Obama vowed to moderate the partisan anger engulfing the country, but the nation is only more divided four years later, perhaps as deeply as at any time since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Civil War<\/a> 150 years ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nObama was sworn in by Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Roberts\" target=\"_blank\">Chief Justice John Roberts<\/a> during a brief ceremony with his family in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Room_(White_House)\" target=\"_blank\">White House Blue Room<\/a>, meeting the legal requirement that presidents officially take office on Jan. 20. Because that date fell on a Sunday this year, the traditional ceremonies surrounding the start of a president\u2019s term were put off to Monday, which coincides this year with the birthday of revered civil rights leader <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King<\/a>. He was assassinated in 1968&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20130120-usa-barack-obama-sworn-second-term-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama sworn in for second term France 24 2013-01-20 US President Barack Obama on Sunday was sworn in for a second four-year term at a small, private ceremony at the White House. He will take the oath again on Monday at the Capitol during a public swearing-in. A still-popular Barack Obama took the presidential oath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,6,26,20],"tags":[13445,13441,13440],"class_list":["post-27737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-new-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-france-24","tag-john-g-roberts","tag-john-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27737","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=27737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}