{"id":11626,"date":"2009-04-25T23:38:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=11626"},"modified":"2023-04-08T13:13:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T10:13:23","slug":"mama-sarah-barack-obamas-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/04\/25\/mama-sarah-barack-obamas-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama Sarah: Barack Obama&#8217;s grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/obama3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" \/>[&#8230;] Barack Obama was born in 1961, the son of a Kenyan father and American mother who had met at a university in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>They split up when Barack was only two. His father returned to Kenya where he became a civil servant in Jomo Kenyatta&#8217;s independence administration while his mother settled with Barack and a new partner in Indonesia [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;Mama Sarah&#8221;, as she is known locally, told Telewa that she has followed her grandson&#8217;s political career with interest &#8211; although she herself didn&#8217;t go to school and had to teach herself to read. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/outlook\/2008\/01\/080116_mamasarah_kenya.shtml\">BBC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;] Barack Obama was born in 1961, the son of a Kenyan father and American mother who had met at a university in Hawaii. They split up when Barack was only two. His father returned to Kenya where he became a civil servant in Jomo Kenyatta&#8217;s independence administration while his mother settled with Barack and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062],"tags":[145,1384],"class_list":["post-11626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","tag-barack-obama","tag-mama-sarah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}