{"id":178,"date":"2009-01-21T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2009-01-21T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:00:13","slug":"the-44th-president-of-these-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/01\/21\/the-44th-president-of-these-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The 44th President of these United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2009\/01\/20\/PH2009012001929.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px;vertical-align: middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2009\/01\/20\/PH2009012001929.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"316\" class=\"img-fluid\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">President Barack Obama has been an inspiration to many scientists during his campaign and his transition to office because of his repeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/pdf\/issues\/FactSheetScience.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commitments to the sciences<\/a> and his early <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appointments of scientists<\/a> in high-profile cabinet positions and advisory roles. Yesterday he renewed those sentiments in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jan\/20\/barack-obama-inauguration-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inauguration speech,<\/a> vowing to \u201crestore science to its rightful place\u201d in our government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The new president has also pledged a commitment to stewardship of our planet, making climate change a priority within his agenda by promising to <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/content\/newenergy_more#emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reduce our greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> by 80 percent by 2050. In yesterday\u2019s speech, he stated that the way we use energy threatens our environment, pledging to \u201croll back the specter of a warming planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As an ecological community, we hope that our 44th president will create an administration that can make good on these committments to science and to our natural world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama has been an inspiration to many scientists during his campaign and his transition to office because of his repeated commitments to the sciences and his early appointments of scientists in high-profile cabinet positions and advisory roles. Yesterday he renewed those sentiments in his inauguration speech, vowing to \u201crestore science to its rightful place\u201d in our government. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[60,114,133],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology-in-policy","tag-climate-change","tag-obama","tag-science-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}