{"id":65,"date":"2008-11-06T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/?p=65"},"modified":"2016-04-05T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T01:31:18","slug":"i-hear-america-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/2008\/11\/06\/i-hear-america-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hear America Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/files\/2008\/11\/obama1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-90\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/files\/2008\/11\/obama1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/files\/2008\/11\/obama1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/files\/2008\/11\/obama1.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s victory for Barack Obama proved that poetry and justice are still vibrant possibilities. I hear America singing. Whitman, Thoreau, Martin Luther King still ring with authenticity. Could days of lies, unfairness, and blindness to inequity be part of our painful growth as a nation? Can a new leadership bring new optimism in the political process and the country&#8217;s economy? Can a healing force and a new transparency extend from the White House to the halls of Congress to Wall Street?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day.&#8221;\u00a0 Walt Whitman<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0America, we rescued the dream; it marches on to the land of promise. Let unyielding hope be our hymn.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Tuesday&#8217;s victory for Barack Obama proved that poetry and justice are still vibrant possibilities. I hear America singing. Whitman, Thoreau, Martin Luther King still ring with authenticity. Could days of lies, unfairness, and blindness to inequity be part of our painful growth as a nation? Can a new leadership bring new optimism in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1039,1037,1035],"tags":[3519,1278,2689,2019,3518],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-commentary","category-political-commentary","category-social-commentary","tag-2008-elections","tag-barack-obama","tag-elections","tag-obama","tag-us-president"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}