{"id":19130,"date":"2017-01-11T04:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19130"},"modified":"2017-01-11T04:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:20:14","slug":"speech-brings-out-the-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19130","title":{"rendered":"Speech brings out the sap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/barack-and-michelle-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19131\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/barack-and-michelle-11-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/barack-and-michelle-11-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/barack-and-michelle-11-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/barack-and-michelle-11.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time for an admission.<\/p>\n<p>It is that I can be a sap. I tend to blubber. I&#8217;ve teared up at films that I know to be fiction, scripted, performances done by actors who are <em>pretending<\/em> to evoke emotion. My family knows this about me; so do my closest friends.<\/p>\n<p>So it was tonight when President Barack Obama turned to his wife near the end of his highly publicized farewell speech to the nation and said, <em>&#8220;Michelle.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The crowd stood. It cheered loudly. Jill Biden, wife of the vice president, clapped vigorously. Michelle and Barack Obama&#8217;s older daughter, Malia, began wiping away tears.<\/p>\n<p>The president called Michelle &#8220;my best friend.&#8221; More tears.<\/p>\n<p>The president then wiped a tear from his own eyes with a handkerchief. He had trouble holding it together.<\/p>\n<p>And there I was , way out here in Texas, swallowing hard as I watched the emotion flowing from the TV screen before me.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal. These folks weren&#8217;t <em>acting<\/em>. It was real. It&#8217;s the kind of real-life drama I get a sort of perverse joy in watching. It demonstrates that even the most powerful, influential and high-profile folks among us are filled with real human emotion.<\/p>\n<p>As is this sap.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for an admission. It is that I can be a sap. I tend to blubber. I&#8217;ve teared up at films that I know to be fiction, scripted, performances done by actors who are pretending to evoke emotion. My family knows this about me; so do my closest friends. So it was tonight when President &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speech brings out the sap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[540,3043,6848],"class_list":["post-19130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-michelle-obama","tag-obama-farewell-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19132,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130\/revisions\/19132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}