{"id":1104,"date":"2009-01-20T19:06:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2009-01-20T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:06:49","slug":"speech-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Speech Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Ambinder tips us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speechwars.com\/inaug\/index.php\">this site<\/a>, where you can check the frequency of words used in inaugural addresses.  &#8220;Non-believers&#8221;, &#8220;muslims&#8221; and &#8220;data&#8221; were words used for the first time by Obama today.  The first one really jumped out at me as it&#8217;s the first time I can recall that a President has acknowledged atheists (I&#8217;m not one, incidentally, but I play one on the internet).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun tool to play with. Something interesting I found: &#8220;God&#8221; barely shows up at all in speeches until Lincoln and hits its peak under Reagan.  &#8220;Slaves&#8221; and &#8220;slavery&#8221; were basically unsaid until Lincoln.  Bush was the most prominent user of &#8220;freedom&#8221; and &#8220;liberty&#8221;, ironically enough.  &#8220;Security&#8221; peaked with Truman.  Obama only said change once, far less than Clinton, Johnson or Taft.  So apparently, Taft was change we could believe in before Obama was.  Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Still waiting for someone to say &#8220;suckers&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Ambinder tips us to this site, where you can check the frequency of words used in inaugural addresses. &#8220;Non-believers&#8221;, &#8220;muslims&#8221; and &#8220;data&#8221; were words used for the first time by Obama today. The first one really jumped out at me as it&#8217;s the first time I can recall that a President has acknowledged atheists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speech Wars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-hO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}