{"id":47,"date":"2011-02-03T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/02\/03\/taking-it-down-a-notch-to-raise-it-to-a-new-level\/"},"modified":"2011-02-03T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:05:54","slug":"taking-it-down-a-notch-to-raise-it-to-a-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/02\/03\/taking-it-down-a-notch-to-raise-it-to-a-new-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking It Down a Notch to Raise It to a New Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s speeches can sound canned, a tutorial on oration without passion, empathy or connection. But this one today at the National Prayer Breakfast was something different. He lowers his voice and comes off more humble and sincere. While it was about faith, he took a moment to defend government\u2019s role, saying that churches, charities and the private sector can\u2019t do all that\u2019s necessary to help those who need it. But doing so it in that quieter tone made it that much more effective.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"282828\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/xml\/video\/25889\/config.xml&amp;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/plugins&amp;path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/xml\/video\/25889\/config.xml&#038;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/plugins&#038;path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf&#038;share_url=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/photos-and-video\/video\/2011\/02\/03\/national-prayer-breakfast\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s speeches can sound canned, a tutorial on oration without passion, empathy or connection. But this one today at the National Prayer Breakfast was something different. He lowers his voice and comes off more humble and sincere. While it was about faith, he took a moment to defend government\u2019s role, saying that churches, charities&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/02\/03\/taking-it-down-a-notch-to-raise-it-to-a-new-level\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}