{"id":66,"date":"2009-01-21T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenotic.net\/?p=66"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:21:56","slug":"air-and-simple-gifts-performed-at-the-inauguration-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/21\/air-and-simple-gifts-performed-at-the-inauguration-of-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Air and Simple Gifts,&#8221; performed at the Inauguration of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a couple of friends and I went out to lunch and watched the Inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Obama.\u00a0 I had never actually watched an inauguration before, so it was a pretty cool sight to see; so many people, so much history, so much tradition.\u00a0 I also thought Rick Warren did a great job on the opening prayer.\u00a0 Obama evokes hope in people, but I really like how Warren visibly evoked something greater.<\/p>\n<p>Just prior to the Oath of Office, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anthony McGill, and Gabriela Montero performed an excellent rendition of John William&#8217;s new composition, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_and_Simple_Gifts\">&#8220;Air and Simple Gifts,&#8221;<\/a> which I wanted to share, because I think it&#8217;s so beautiful.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/audio\/AirAndSimpleGifts.mp3]\n<p>It&#8217;s a new day, with a new president.\u00a0 Exciting times.<\/p>\n<p>[ <strong>Edit:<\/strong> I was still waking up when I wrote this:\u00a0 yes, it was Rick Warren, not Tim Keller, who gave the opening prayer.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude1b\u00a0 Thanks, Mark. ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a couple of friends and I went out to lunch and watched the Inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Obama.\u00a0 I had never actually watched an inauguration before, so it was a pretty cool sight to see; so many people, so much history, so much tradition.\u00a0 I also thought Rick Warren did a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[70,66,71,67,69,68],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","category-music","tag-air-and-simple-gifts","tag-barack-obama","tag-composition","tag-inauguration","tag-john-williams","tag-yo-yo-ma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}