{"id":2585,"date":"2008-11-03T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T21:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2008-11-03T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:09:31","slug":"hes-had-quite-an-emotional-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/03\/hes-had-quite-an-emotional-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s had an emotional year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/swampland.blogs.time.com\/2008\/11\/03\/madelyn-dunham\/\"><strong>Statement from Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng on the Death of Their Grandmother<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer.&nbsp; She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility.&nbsp; She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances.&nbsp; She was proud of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and left this world with the knowledge that her impact on all of us was meaningful and enduring.&nbsp; Our debt to her is beyond measure.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Our family wants to thank all of those who sent flowers, cards, well-wishes, and prayers during this difficult time.&nbsp; It brought our grandmother and us great comfort.&nbsp; Our grandmother was a private woman, and we will respect her wish for a small private ceremony to be held at a later date.&nbsp;&nbsp; In lieu of flowers, we ask that you make a donation to any worthy organization in search of a cure for cancer.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"337\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.debbieschlussel.com\/archives\/obamagrandparents.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">She left us quite a legacy&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng on the Death of Their Grandmother It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer.&nbsp; She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility.&nbsp; She was the person who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}