{"id":13160,"date":"2016-01-18T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=13160"},"modified":"2016-10-28T03:03:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T03:03:28","slug":"obama-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/obama-birthday","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons Why Michelle Obama Is An Admirable Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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She is a dedicated mother<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mrs. Obama is extremely educated; she is one of three First Ladies that has a graduate degree. She studied sociology and African-American studies at Princeton University, attended Harvard Law School, and practiced law in Chicago. But when asked to describe herself, she says that she is first and foremost, a mother to daughters Malia and Sasha. She once told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/archive\/article\/0,,20061177,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People magazine <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0that she had scored a job interview, but she was still on maternity leave and breastfeeding newborn Sasha. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t have a babysitter,\u201d she said. \u00a0\u201cSo I went in there with the stroller and did the interview. And Sasha slept through it, thank goodness.&#8221; And, she got the job.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13161\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/barack_obama_family_portrait_2011.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/barack_obama_family_portrait_2011.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/barack_obama_family_portrait_2011-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/barack_obama_family_portrait_2011-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5d\/Barack_Obama_family_portrait_2011.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>2. She is a writer<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obama has written not one, but two books. One is titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It advocates for eating healthy and follows the White House Kitchen Garden through the four seasons. The second is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelle Obama in her Own Words<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is a collection of 200-250 quotations from the First Lady on topics ranging from affirmative action to her fashion sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13162\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/michelle-obama-book-signing.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/michelle-obama-book-signing.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/michelle-obama-book-signing-600x472.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/michelle-obama-book-signing-85x67.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/obamadiary.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/michelle-obama-book-signing.jpg?w=841&amp;h=661\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>3. She has launched several initiatives<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The First Lady does not just support what her husband does, she comes up with her own ideas. In 2010, she launched an initiative to fight childhood obesity called <em>Let\u2019s Move! <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00a0\u201cOver the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese,\u201d the site says.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <em>Let&#8217;s Move!<\/em> website, numbers are even higher among African-American and Hispanic communities. The initiative aims to decrease childhood obesity to 5% by 2030. In 2011, Mrs. Obama started <em>Joining Forces<\/em>, which supports service members, veterans, and their families with wellness, education, and employment opportunities. In 2014, she created the <em>Reach Higher Initiative<\/em> to inspire young people to pursue a higher education. \u00a0And In 2015, the Obamas launched <em>Let Girls Learn<\/em> to help girls around the world get access to an education. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13163\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/ap-michelle-obama-campaign.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"701\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/ap-michelle-obama-campaign.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/ap-michelle-obama-campaign-600x364.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/ap-michelle-obama-campaign-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/ap-michelle-obama-campaign-85x52.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.jrn.com\/images\/ap-michelle-obama-campaign.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>4. She is not afraid to talk about race<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Mrs. Obama was attending Princeton, she was one of fewer than 100 black students in her class. It affected her so much that she wrote her senior thesis on being black at the university. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cMy experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my &#8216;blackness&#8217; than ever before,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don&#8217;t belong.\u201d <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Now, as the first black First Lady, she still does not shy away from speaking her mind about racial issues in the United States.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13166\" style=\"width: 707px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/26-michelle-obama-vera-wang-3-w529-h793.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"707\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/26-michelle-obama-vera-wang-3-w529-h793.jpg 529w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/26-michelle-obama-vera-wang-3-w529-h793-85x56.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisSumlin\/status\/688776206951542784\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/obama-lebron\">SEE ALSO:\u00a0Michelle Obama Teams Up With LeBron James To Promote Higher Education.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama turned 52 on January 17th! 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