{"id":406,"date":"2013-01-21T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2013-01-21T21:07:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:07:51","slug":"barack-h-obama-is-the-44th-president-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His story is the American story \u2014 values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others. (from whitehouse.gov)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nkisiland.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=409\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-409\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-409\" src=\"https:\/\/nkisiland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/President_Barack_Obama_2012_portrait_crop-787x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/President_Barack_Obama_2012_portrait_crop-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/President_Barack_Obama_2012_portrait_crop-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/President_Barack_Obama_2012_portrait_crop.jpg 1338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton&#8217;s army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.<\/p>\n<p>After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to attend law school, where he became the first African\u2014American president of the\u00a0Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama&#8217;s years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His story is the American story \u2014 values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/?p=406\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}