{"id":6831,"date":"2021-01-20T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2021-01-20T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:22:48","slug":"a-new-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2021\/01\/20\/a-new-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not talking about STAR WARS.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent the morning watching Joe Biden being sworn in as president.<\/p>\n<p>Joe is not the orator that Obama and JFK were, but I found his speech profoundly moving.\u00a0\u00a0 He said all the right things.<\/p>\n<p>I do not envy him.\u00a0\u00a0 Very few presidents have faced the sort of challenges he does.\u00a0\u00a0 Lincoln, perhaps.\u00a0 FDR, taking over in the deep of the Great Depression.\u00a0 No one else.\u00a0\u00a0 The road ahead will not be easy.\u00a0\u00a0 The sort of problems that America faces cannot be solved easily, nor overnight.\u00a0\u00a0 But if anyone can solve them, I think it is Biden.\u00a0\u00a0 He is experienced, intelligent, and above all compassionate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6832\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Charles-Dickens-quotes-about-inspiration-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Charles-Dickens-quotes-about-inspiration-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Charles-Dickens-quotes-about-inspiration-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Charles-Dickens-quotes-about-inspiration-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Charles-Dickens-quotes-about-inspiration-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Charles-Dickens-quotes-about-inspiration.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are dark days in America, but this morning, for the first time in a long while, I am feeling a little hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not talking about STAR WARS. I&#8217;ve spent the morning watching Joe Biden being sworn in as president. Joe is not the orator that Obama and JFK were, but I found his speech profoundly moving.\u00a0\u00a0 He said all the right things. I do not envy him.\u00a0\u00a0 Very few presidents have faced the sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6834,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}