{"id":2321,"date":"2009-01-18T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T00:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2009-01-19T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:37:53","slug":"we-are-one-inaugural-concert-music-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/18\/we-are-one-inaugural-concert-music-and-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are One: Inaugural Concert Music and Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<strong>Update:<\/strong> high res slideshow of my photos <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/gallery\/WeAreOne\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I made it down to the Mall today, along with thousands and thousands and thousands of others who have high hopes for Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3377\/3208136608_2fec834773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already posted about the highlight &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/18\/this-land-was-made-for-you-and-me-we-sang-the-whole-song\/\">Pete Seeger&#8217;s leading us all in This Land Is Your Land<\/a> &#8211; but I thought I&#8217;d share a few of my favorite songs and some of my photographs.\u00c2\u00a0 Wasn&#8217;t even half way through the line to get into the secured areas when they shut it down, so my perspective is from waaaay back.\u00c2\u00a0 But you know what?\u00c2\u00a0 I think I lucked out &#8211; we had a blast in the back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3396\/3207291515_0568c72d24.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m listening to and enjoying the replay of it on HBO as I write this, and discovering some of the great &#8211; but quiet &#8211; tracks that I missed out there in the cheap seats.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This is what got us moving when we were there, though:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=malnd19Ttyk[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So we danced some more,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3258\/3208300014_e7b816e9b2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">to Stevie:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4wZ3ZG_Wams[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And for once, this seemed appropriate:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=56mjwycKuXA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keep reaching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3266\/3207456903_46251506b7.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bigger versions &#8211; and a few more &#8211; of these pictures <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/gallery\/WeAreOne\/\">here<\/a>, if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Update: high res slideshow of my photos here.) I made it down to the Mall today, along with thousands and thousands and thousands of others who have high hopes for Barack Obama. I&#8217;ve already posted about the highlight &#8211; Pete Seeger&#8217;s leading us all in This Land Is Your Land &#8211; but I thought I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-personal","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}