{"id":4797,"date":"2012-01-09T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T10:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2012-01-08T20:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T01:31:52","slug":"book-review-michelle-obama-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4797","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Michelle Obama: A Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=4798\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4798\" title=\"9781612302119_web\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/9781612302119_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Michelle-Obama-A-Life-ebook\/dp\/B006LWUYPC\/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326072284&amp;sr=1-10\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Michelle Obama: A Life<\/em><\/a> is an interesting biography about our First Lady.\u00a0 This book is currently available for free on Kindle and I&#8217;d encourage you to pick it up.\u00a0 I have enjoyed watching Mrs. Obama grow more comfortable in her role as First Lady.\u00a0 I have also really appreciated the efforts she has made to make life in the White House as normal as possible for her two daughters.\u00a0 This book is a quick read and worth your time if you are interested in finding out more about the lady behind our President.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some things that I highlighted while reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michelle Obama is a one-woman, no-B.S. zone.<\/li>\n<li>This focus on the practical side of things was pure Michelle &#8211; commonsense, real world, results-focused.<\/li>\n<li>Obama may have a thick skin, but she also has a sharp head &#8211; and she wasn\u2019t about to let her enemies define her.<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Obama has settled on the two causes that are most important to her: fighting childhood obesity and supporting military families.<\/li>\n<li>She is a fiercely protective and involved mother.<\/li>\n<li>Another key component of Obama\u2019s appeal is that she\u2019s clearly enjoying herself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama: A Life is an interesting biography about our First Lady.\u00a0 This book is currently available for free on Kindle and I&#8217;d encourage you to pick it up.\u00a0 I have enjoyed watching Mrs. Obama grow more comfortable in her role as First Lady.\u00a0 I have also really appreciated the efforts she has made to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,16,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-education","category-family","category-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}