{"id":41368,"date":"2020-02-23T23:06:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41368"},"modified":"2020-02-23T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:08:12","slug":"missing-this-kind-of-pda-from-potus-and-flotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41368","title":{"rendered":"Missing this kind of PDA from POTUS and FLOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=POTUS%20%23FLOTUS%20%23PDA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/obamas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41369\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/obamas-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/obamas-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/obamas-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/obamas.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just know I am going to catch grief from critics of this blog \u2026 but, what the heck. I am going to say this anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I miss seeing this kind of funny display of affection from the first couple of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>These pictures showed up on my Facebook news feed. I figure they were snapped in January, when Michelle Obama celebrated her 56th birthday. She and her husband were goofing off, exhibiting a good natured public display of affection.<\/p>\n<p>I vaguely recall the occasional stuffed-shirt criticism that came at them when Barack Obama was president and Michelle Obama was first lady.<\/p>\n<p>Their White House successors haven&#8217;t shown this kind of public affection for each other that I can remember.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures such as these demonstrate a level of humanity in our elected leader and his spouse. It&#8217;s a refreshing sight to see, even from a <em>former<\/em> POTUS and FLOTUS.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=POTUS%20%23FLOTUS%20%23PDA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just know I am going to catch grief from critics of this blog \u2026 but, what the heck. I am going to say this anyway. I miss seeing this kind of funny display of affection from the first couple of the United States. These pictures showed up on my Facebook news feed. I figure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missing this kind of PDA from POTUS and FLOTUS<\/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":[540,6783,3043,3688],"class_list":["post-41368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-flotus","tag-michelle-obama","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41368","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=41368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41370,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41368\/revisions\/41370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}