{"id":93881,"date":"2017-03-14T04:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93881"},"modified":"2017-03-14T04:53:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:53:57","slug":"michelle-obama-writes-college-letter-for-black-ish-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/14\/michelle-obama-writes-college-letter-for-black-ish-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama writes college letter for &#8216;Black ish&#8217; star"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84008\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/michelle-obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84008\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/michelle-obama.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cBlack-ish\u201d star Yara Shahidi had lots of fans and supporters as she applied for college. She also had a letter of recommendation \u2014 and some encouragement \u2014 from Michelle Obama.  (Photo: Georgia Democrats\/Flickr))\" width=\"218\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/michelle-obama.jpg 218w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/michelle-obama-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cBlack-ish\u201d star Yara Shahidi had lots of fans and supporters as she applied for college. She also had a letter of recommendation \u2014 and some encouragement \u2014 from Michelle Obama. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/59795954@N07\/5975773635\/in\/photolist-a74piV-bJHEE2-9stR2v-aCarfo-jhXnMG-bY6hth-8cR2ix-bvNWw9-9nnuz1-eS3Vvx-9oRc2z-bjfqir-6sMx8k-9oRxfX-bjfAjk-5U7hiL-qnfMwN-7mRBrq-dgwYr3-dgwZhC-dgwVKF-dgx1Bt-dgx5tK-dgx1dF-dgx2v1-dgwZLh-dgx18q-9oRcyz-aC7LY4-cJU8MJ-5TXCxC-rsYtry-cXs4HJ-6sRENW-6r9j2D-broJsa-dCTvZS-bE6b7Y-ptAPJH-81oEBF-dWQevJ-9jhsFP-eZmmyD-6r9j12-5UvSqp-9RUChH-oPhRPx-eZmmpF-pKRA3k-cXEADy\">Georgia Democrats\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 \u201cBlack-ish\u201d star Yara Shahidi had lots of fans and supporters as she applied for college. She also had a letter of recommendation \u2014 and some encouragement \u2014 from Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Shahidi tells W magazine that the former first lady gave her a \u201cgo get &#8217;em, tiger\u201d backrub before Shahidi took her Advanced Placement exams. She says Obama is \u201cvery amazing and such a supporter, which is something very surreal to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama and Shahidi appeared on stage together in Washington in October for an International Day of the Girl event hosted by Glamour Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Shahidi is set to begin shooting a pilot for a spinoff series featuring her \u201cBlack-ish\u201d character, Zoey Johnson on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 \u201cBlack-ish\u201d star Yara Shahidi had lots of fans and supporters as she applied for college. She also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[2338,16577],"class_list":["post-93881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-michelle-obama","tag-yara-shahidi","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}