{"id":163,"date":"2009-01-20T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T02:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-02-02T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:13:32","slug":"inauguration-day-january-20-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_170\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/barack-obama-capitol1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-170\" src=\"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/barack-obama-capitol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"President Obama\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Obama<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, as millions of Americans and others throughout the world celebrate the inauguration of our Nation&#8217;s first African American president, I come away with a renewed sense of optimism, and hope.<\/p>\n<p>There is a renewed excitement today on a great variety of fronts, not the least of which relates to energy and the environment. Ocean-based energy has a better chance than ever to ignite and inspire the collective imagination of our people. The 110th Congress may well have failed to take action, but the 111th just might! Our country\u2019s 43rd President may have done nothing, but this new 44th President of the United States\u2014this upstart \u201cYes We Can!\u201d President, President Barack Obama\u2014might just take a swing at it. He might just knock it right out of the ballpark!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>God knows our country is ready for change. OceanNRG\u2122 (ocean-based technologies) represents an entirely new energy paradigm\u2014a veritable sea-change with respect to how electricity is produced (no pun intended). It\u2019s an economical, and highly innovative, source of clean, and persistently renewable, power. And guess what? It\u2019s also a potential source of 5 million or more new jobs! Finally, it\u2019s a technology that is exquisitely suited to the needs of our country, and world, at this crucial moment in our history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, as millions of Americans and others throughout the world celebrate the inauguration of our Nation&#8217;s first African American president, I come away with a renewed sense of optimism, and hope. There is a renewed excitement today on a great variety of fronts, not the least of which relates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,13,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}