{"id":396,"date":"2006-05-16T15:42:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=396"},"modified":"2006-05-16T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T22:42:49","slug":"history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2006\/05\/history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"History Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I noticed a gaffe in the final episode of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_West_Wing\/\">West Wing<\/a>. <\/em>The writing is the finest-kind and they usually have their history straight. But, I heard President Bartlett blame the January Inauguration on the likes of Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin; our Founding Fathers. And that just isn&#8217;t right. Back in the early days of our Republic, the Presidential Inauguration was set for the March 4th following the election (Washington was inaugurated April 30th, 1789) . It wasn&#8217;t until <a href=\"http:\/\/fpc.state.gov\/fpc\/40871.htm\">1933<\/a> that the Inauguration moved to January, and that took a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/constitution.amendmentxx.html\">constitutional amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Doesn&#8217;t anybody fact-check these people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed a gaffe in the final episode of West Wing. The writing is the finest-kind and they usually have their history straight. But, I heard President Bartlett blame the January Inauguration on the likes of Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin; our Founding Fathers. And that just isn&#8217;t right. Back in the early days of our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2006\/05\/history-lesson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History Lesson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-6o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}