{"id":1355,"date":"2017-01-20T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2017-01-20T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:16:39","slug":"a-happy-and-sad-inauguration-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/a-happy-and-sad-inauguration-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Happy and Sad Inauguration Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 20, 2017, I was excited as Inauguration\u00a0Day began. I was thrilled to the point of chill bumps, as I listened to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Then, at 12:00 noon (Eastern Time), I sat, as did millions of other Americans, and watched as our government proceded with the swearing-in\u00a0of the new president. It would be a significant understatement to say that I was proud, as Mr. Trump took his oath of office and became President Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America. Listening to\u00a0Jackie Evancho sing the National Anthem was like the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0I was also sad that day. I was sad, as I watched Mr. and Mrs. Obama board, for the final time, the plane that is most commonly\u00a0known as Air Force One, when the President is on board. I watched as they climbed the steps, to Boeing 747\u00a0and turned to wave. I watched as\u00a0seven members of the military\u00a0raised their rifles and each one fired three times. This brought a tear to my eye.<\/p>\n

Now I know that it may surprise you that, as a conservative, this made me sad. But it was at that very moment that I realized just how far America’s military had deteriorated under the Obama Administration. Every last one of those 21 shots\u2026 missed.<\/p>\nFollow us on social media
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On January 20, 2017, I was excited as Inauguration\u00a0Day began. I was thrilled to the point of chill bumps, as I listened to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Then, at 12:00 noon (Eastern Time), I sat, as did millions of other … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}