{"id":1655,"date":"2009-05-12T21:54:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T04:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/05\/12\/president-obama-reads-where-the-wild-things-are\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T03:49:50","slug":"president-obama-reads-where-the-wild-things-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/05\/12\/president-obama-reads-where-the-wild-things-are\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Reads &#8216;Where the Wild Things Are&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bo_YB9ODqrw\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bo_YB9ODqrw\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>He reads the entire book out loud to a group of kids at the White House Easter Egg Roll.\u00a0 Watch him.\u00a0 He wings it.\u00a0 He improvises.\u00a0 He throws himself completely into what he is doing for these kids.\u00a0 He knows they can&#8217;t all see the pictures so he describes and even performs them.\u00a0 I know just how difficult this performance really is.\u00a0 There are few people who can pull this off.\u00a0 We have a president who is actually an intelligent person and who enjoys reading and talking to people.\u00a0 I think this is a very good video for <em>Children&#8217;s Book Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=89250fd5-bbcd-8361-b9d0-da19b683c3f7\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He reads the entire book out loud to a group of kids at the White House Easter Egg Roll.\u00a0 Watch him.\u00a0 He wings it.\u00a0 He improvises.\u00a0 He throws himself completely into what he is doing for these kids.\u00a0 He knows they can&#8217;t all see the pictures so he describes and even performs them.\u00a0 I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[366,358],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-children","tag-reading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"He reads the entire book out loud to a group of kids at the White House Easter Egg Roll. 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