{"id":172,"date":"2009-01-21T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T01:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-01-21T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T01:38:12","slug":"post-inauguration-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/post-inauguration-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"POST-INAUGURATION THOUGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The inauguration of our new President went more smoothly than many professionals had feared, but then, those in public emergency services are paid to be pessimistic.  The law enforcement network that coordinated the NSSE (National Special Security Event) was enormous, and it did its job well.  You\u2019ll get an idea of the scope of their task, and some of their obvious concerns,  from the FBI\u2019s own website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/multimedia\/inaug012009\/inaug012009.htm\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=6689022\">inaugural address<\/a>  in its entirety if you haven\u2019t caught it yet), President Obama said among other things, \u201cWe come to proclaim an end to petty grievances and false promises.\u201d  One hopes that he remembers the \u201cpromise\u201d he promulgated throughout his campaign, that he wouldn\u2019t take guns away from honest citizens.<\/p>\n<p>However, his and his Vice-President\u2019s support for making the assault weapons ban, which was a total failure throughout its decade of existence, permanent, gives one pause.  <\/p>\n<p>I suppose we law-abiding American gun owners must wait\u2026and see\u2026and hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inauguration of our new President went more smoothly than many professionals had feared, but then, those in public emergency services are paid to be pessimistic. The law enforcement network that coordinated the NSSE (National Special Security Event) was enormous, and it did its job well. You\u2019ll get an idea of the scope of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}