{"id":2191,"date":"2009-01-20T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2009-01-20T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T20:18:13","slug":"the-risk-takers-the-doers-the-makers-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/01\/20\/the-risk-takers-the-doers-the-makers-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Risk-Takers, the Doers, the Makers of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite line from today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/the-full-text-of-barack-obamas-inaugural-speech-6868625.html\">inauguration speech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted &#8211; for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been t<strong>he risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things<\/strong> &#8211; some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labour, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The following line, as you can imagine, made crowd gathered in the Paul Allen Center to watch the speech pretty damn happy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We will <strong>restore science to its rightful place<\/strong>, and wield technology&#8217;s wonders to raise health care&#8217;s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite line from today&#8217;s inauguration speech: In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted &#8211; for those who prefer leisure over work, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/01\/20\/the-risk-takers-the-doers-the-makers-of-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Risk-Takers, the Doers, the Makers of Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}