{"id":492,"date":"2009-09-28T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/09\/obamas-cheshire-smile.html"},"modified":"2009-09-28T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:07:17","slug":"obamas-cheshire-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/09\/obamas-cheshire-smile.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Cheshire Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is eerie – Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile, culled from the official US State Department photo set on Flickr of Barack and Michelle Obama meeting various dignitaries<\/a> and heads of state last week at the UN:<\/p>\n

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I find this as utterly captivating as The Infinite Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is eerie – Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile, culled from the official US State Department photo set on Flickr of Barack and Michelle Obama meeting various dignitaries and heads of state last week at the UN: I find this as utterly captivating as The Infinite Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,25,26],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dour-mullah","tag-barack-obama","tag-news","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nObama's Cheshire Smile - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama's Cheshire Smile - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is eerie – Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile, culled from the official US State Department photo set on Flickr of Barack and Michelle Obama meeting various dignitaries and heads of state last week at the UN: I find this as utterly captivating as The Infinite Khan.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/09\/obamas-cheshire-smile.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-09-28T12:07:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aziz Poonawalla\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Obama's Cheshire Smile - 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