{"id":39440,"date":"2015-01-14T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39440"},"modified":"2015-02-11T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:53:42","slug":"praise-song-for-the-day-a-poem-for-barack-obamas-presidential-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39440","title":{"rendered":"Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama&#8217;s Presidential Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/books\/praise-song-day\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama&#8217;s Presidential Inauguration<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\" target=\"_blank\">Graywolf Press<\/a><br \/>\n2009-02-06<br \/>\n28 pages<br \/>\nTrim Size: 4 5\/8 x 6 1\/2<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-55597-545-6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/author-list\/elizabeth-alexander\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Elizabeth Alexander<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/books\/praise-song-day\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/book-image-page\/public\/images\/booxml\/9781555975456.png?itok=m8QCVv0x\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Available in an elegant chapbook, Elizabeth Alexander\u2019s historic poem, read at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth-ever inaugural poet and a central participant in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">one of the most closely watched inaugurations<\/a> in American history. Selected by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>, Alexander composed and delivered her original poem \u201cPraise Song for the Day\u201d to an audience of millions, and now the poem can be read and savored for posterity. Printed on heavy, uncoated stock and bound with <a href=\"http:\/\/editionbinding.com\/tag\/french-flaps\/#sthash.IeVip9K0.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">French flaps<\/a> and a silver foil stamp, this collectible <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chapbook\" target=\"_blank\">chapbook<\/a> is a cherished reminder of this monumental presidential event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama&#8217;s Presidential Inauguration Graywolf Press 2009-02-06 28 pages Trim Size: 4 5\/8 x 6 1\/2 ISBN: 978-1-55597-545-6 Elizabeth Alexander Available in an elegant chapbook, Elizabeth Alexander\u2019s historic poem, read at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,8,1617,20],"tags":[11551,11550],"class_list":["post-39440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-alexander","tag-graywolf-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440","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=39440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}