{"id":8412,"date":"2008-03-15T15:26:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2008-03-15T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T20:26:22","slug":"obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8412","title":{"rendered":"OBAMA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/14\/us\/politics\/14obama.html?_r=1&#038;sq=&#038;pagewanted=print\">A sort of almost former HEK?<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She had high expectations for her children. In Indonesia, she would wake her son at 4 a.m. for correspondence courses in English before school; she brought home recordings of Mahalia Jackson, speeches by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And when Mr. Obama asked to stay in Hawaii for high school rather than return to Asia, she accepted living apart \u2014 a decision her daughter says was one of the hardest in Ms. Soetoro\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>[snip]<\/p>\n<p>As a mother, Ms. Soetoro was both idealistic and exacting. Friends describe her as variously informal and intense, humorous and hardheaded. She preached to her young son the importance of honesty, straight talk, independent judgment. When he balked at her early-morning home schooling, she retorted, \u201cThis is no picnic for me either, buster.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a pretty tough woman.  [Tip credit: Jane]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sort of almost former HEK? She had high expectations for her children. In Indonesia, she would wake her son at 4 a.m. for correspondence courses in English before school; she brought home recordings of Mahalia Jackson, speeches by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And when Mr. Obama asked to stay in Hawaii [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}