{"id":209,"date":"2011-06-21T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/?p=209"},"modified":"2011-06-21T14:10:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T18:10:05","slug":"president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Comforts a Crying Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I can&#8217;t imagine<\/strong> how this may or may not impact his role as leader of the free world, but I am strangely comforted by the fact that President Obama knows how to hold and comfort a crying baby.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8WPtEGOp5rI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8WPtEGOp5rI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s done it before or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t imagine how this may or may not impact his role as leader of the free world, but I am strangely comforted by the fact that President Obama knows how to hold and comfort a crying baby. It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s done it before or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[68,124],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awesome","category-video","tag-barack-obama","tag-michelle-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Obama Comforts a Crying Baby - Dadequate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Obama Comforts a Crying Baby - Dadequate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I can&#8217;t imagine how this may or may not impact his role as leader of the free world, but I am strangely comforted by the fact that President Obama knows how to hold and comfort a crying baby. It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s done it before or something.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dadequate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-21T18:10:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jason Boyett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"President Obama Comforts a Crying Baby - Dadequate","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"President Obama Comforts a Crying Baby - Dadequate","og_description":"I can&#8217;t imagine how this may or may not impact his role as leader of the free world, but I am strangely comforted by the fact that President Obama knows how to hold and comfort a crying baby. It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s done it before or something.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html","og_site_name":"Dadequate","article_published_time":"2011-06-21T18:10:05+00:00","author":"Jason Boyett","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html","name":"President Obama Comforts a Crying Baby - Dadequate","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-06-21T18:10:05+00:00","dateModified":"2011-06-21T18:10:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/#\/schema\/person\/f69eb4f788db541ff47d2f5d01cad5e7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/president-obama-comforts-a-crying-baby.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"President Obama Comforts a Crying Baby"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/","name":"Dadequate","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Jason Boyett","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/#\/schema\/person\/f69eb4f788db541ff47d2f5d01cad5e7","name":"Jason Boyett","description":"Jason Boyett is a writer, speaker, and the author of several books, including O Me of Little Faith (Zondervan), and the Pocket Guide series (Jossey-Bass). His work has appeared in Salon, Paste, The Daily Beast, Relevant, and a variety of other publications. He has also appeared on the History Channel and National Geographic Channel. Jason lives in Texas with his wife and two kids. Follow him at twitter and jasonboyett.com.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/author\/jboyett"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}