{"id":4556,"date":"2016-07-29T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2016-07-29T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:51:39","slug":"when-they-go-low-we-go-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/when-they-go-low-we-go-high\/","title":{"rendered":"When they go low, we go high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama&#8217;s speech(writer) did a masterful job. I was excited. I was motivated. I was interested and engaged. She ignited a fire and kept it burning all week. She said something I believe set the tone for the entire convention and the party&#8217;s message.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>&#8220;When they go low. We go high.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212; Michelle Obama(&#8216;s speech writer)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch first lady Michelle Obama\u2019s full speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ZNWYqDU948?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t try to add anything else but leave these two parts that resonated with me.<\/p>\n<p>How far we&#8217;ve come.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves \u2014 and I watch my daughters \u2014 two beautiful, intelligent, black young women \u2014 playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters \u2014 and all our sons and daughters \u2014 now take for granted that a woman can be President of the United States.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inaction loses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  So in this election, we cannot sit back and hope that everything works out for the best. We cannot afford to be tired, or frustrated, or cynical. No, hear me \u2014 between now and November, we need to do what we did eight years ago and four years ago: We need to knock on every door. We need to get out every vote. We need to pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our love for this country into electing Hillary Clinton as President of the United States of America.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/07\/26\/487431756\/michelle-obamas-prepared-remarks-for-democratic-national-convention\">NPR has the full text of her speech.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama&#8217;s speech(writer) did a masterful job. I was excited. I was motivated. I was interested and engaged. She ignited a fire and kept it burning all week. She said something I believe set the tone for the entire convention and the party&#8217;s message. &#8220;When they go low. We go high.&#8221; &#8212; Michelle Obama(&#8216;s speech [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - When they go low, we go high","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1090,1089,1095,1096],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-clinton","tag-dnc","tag-michelle-obama","tag-speech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}