{"id":614,"date":"2009-01-21T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/president-barack-obama-connection-1\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T21:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T05:32:34","slug":"president-barack-obama-connection-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/president-barack-obama-connection-1\/","title":{"rendered":"President Barack Obama Connection 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we celebrate the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American? President of the United States of America, I will discuss on this blog over the next several months the connection between President Obama and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. President Obama is not a member of a black greek-letter organization, but Sigma?s influence in his life is greater than anyone can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>In the Spring\/Summer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/files\/thecrescent2007.pdf\">2007 issue of the Crescent Magazine<\/a> there is an article about ?Sigmas in the U.S. Secret Service.??? Our Sigma brothers have been protecting our U.S. Presidents for years. Without going into too much detail about the article, there is a very good chance that a number of Sigma men are protecting our 44th President of the United States. This is an excellent article, which I have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/files\/thecrescent2007.pdf\">attached for your review<\/a>. Please read pages 12 ? 17. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we celebrate the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American? President of the United States of America, I will discuss on this blog over the next several months the connection between President Obama and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. President Obama is not a member of a black greek-letter organization, but Sigma?s influence &#8230; <a title=\"President Barack Obama Connection 1\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/president-barack-obama-connection-1\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Barack Obama Connection 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}