{"id":27739,"date":"2013-01-20T22:42:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27739"},"modified":"2013-01-20T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T22:42:28","slug":"obama-sworn-in-at-low-key-white-house-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27739","title":{"rendered":"Obama sworn in at low-key White House ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\/us\/2013-01\/21\/content_16146131.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Obama sworn in at low-key White House ceremony<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\" target=\"_blank\">China Daily-USA<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-21<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">US President Barack Obama<\/a> took the official oath for his second term on Sunday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a> in a small, private ceremony that set a more subdued tone compared to the historic start of his presidency four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Gathered with his family in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Room_(White_House)\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Room<\/a> on the White House&#8217;s ceremonial main floor, Obama put his hand on a family Bible and recited the 35-word oath that was read out loud by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Roberts\" target=\"_blank\">US Chief Justice John Roberts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did it,&#8221; Obama said as he hugged his wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle<\/a>, and daughters <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sasha_Obama#Malia_and_Sasha_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Sasha and Malia<\/a>. &#8220;Thank you, sweetie,&#8221; he told Michelle when she congratulated him. &#8220;You didn&#8217;t mess up,&#8221; Sasha Obama told her father.<\/p>\n<p>It was a low-key start to the first African-American US president&#8217;s second term, which is likely to be dominated &#8211; at least at the start &#8211; by budget fights with Republicans and attempts to reform gun control and immigration laws&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\/us\/2013-01\/21\/content_16146131.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama sworn in at low-key White House ceremony China Daily-USA 2013-01-21 WASHINGTON &#8211; US President Barack Obama took the official oath for his second term on Sunday at the White House in a small, private ceremony that set a more subdued tone compared to the historic start of his presidency four years ago. Gathered with [&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":[13447,13446,13441,13440],"class_list":["post-27739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-new-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-china-daily","tag-china-daily-usa","tag-john-g-roberts","tag-john-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739","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=27739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}