{"id":850,"date":"2008-11-05T23:27:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2018-08-25T20:48:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T00:48:15","slug":"speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/850","title":{"rendered":"Speechless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was impressed by McCain&#8217;s gracious concession speech.  Typically, during these speeches, the conceding candidate&#8217;s supporters boo the winner, affording the candidate the opportunity to be portrayed as a healer by urging post-election unity.  In this speech, there was some of that, but it was kept to a minimum.  And when John McCain said that America had come a long way as evidenced by the election of an African American as president, the audience applauded and cheered.  In my entire life, I&#8217;ve never seen a crowd applaud the opponent during a concession speech.  <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bss6lTP8BJ8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bss6lTP8BJ8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\/><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s speech was beautiful, as we knew it would be, but more than anything else, it was the willingness of the Republican crowd to drop the partisan rancor to acknowledge a landmark moment in American history that filled me with hope for the future of our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was impressed by McCain&#8217;s gracious concession speech. Typically, during these speeches, the conceding candidate&#8217;s supporters boo the winner, affording the candidate the opportunity to be portrayed as a healer by urging post-election unity. In this speech, there was some of that, but it was kept to a minimum. And when John McCain said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,114,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-president-obama","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}