{"id":348936,"date":"2010-02-22T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:58:12","slug":"michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/348936","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama Welcomed Harry Connick Jr. To Govenors Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Michelle Obama\u00a0 and President Obama welcomed Harry Connick Jr. to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\">Whitehouse<\/a> for their second Governors Ball on Sunday.  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/harry-connick-jr-live-white-house\">Whitehouse blog<\/a>, Connick spent time with DC music students and performed.  From the Whitehouse,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cAt 3:00 PM EST today the First Lady will give a group of Washington, DC music students a special preview of the 2010 Governors\u2019 Ball performance. Grammy Award Winning artist, Harry Connick Jr. will spend some time talking to students and will close out the event with a song, joined by a few residents from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolamusiciansvillage.org\/\">New Orleans Musicians\u2019 Village<\/a>. The Musician\u2019s Village was conceived by New Orleans native Harry Connick, Jr. in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to rebuild homes for many of New Orleans cherished but displaced artists, those who have defined the city\u2019s culture and created the sounds that have shaped the musical vernacular of the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Posted by Bridgette of <a href=\"http:\/\/trailblazer-firstlady.blogspot.com\">http:\/\/trailblazer-firstlady.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=#michelleobamawatch\" title=\"Post to twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/plurk.com\/?status=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball+http:\/\/bit.ly\/9RzmNF\" title=\"Post to Plurk\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-plurk.png\" alt=\"Post to Plurk\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/buzz.yahoo.com\/submit?submitUrl=http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2010\/02\/michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball\/&amp;submitHeadline=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball\" title=\"Post to Yahoo Buzz\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-buzz.png\" alt=\"Post to Yahoo Buzz\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/post?url=http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2010\/02\/michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball\/&amp;title=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball\" title=\"Post to Delicious\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-delicious.png\" alt=\"Post to Delicious\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2010\/02\/michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball\/&amp;title=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball\" title=\"Post to Digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-digg.png\" alt=\"Post to Digg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2010\/02\/michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball\/&amp;t=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball\" title=\"Post to Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-facebook.png\" alt=\"Post to Facebook\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/Modules\/PostTo\/Pages\/?l=3&amp;u=http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2010\/02\/michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball\/&amp;t=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball&amp;c=%3Cp%3EPowered+by+%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Frichardxthripp.thripp.com%2Ftweet-this%22%3ETweet+This%3C%2Fa%3E%3C%2Fp%3E\" title=\"Post to MySpace\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-myspace.png\" alt=\"Post to MySpace\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/ping.fm\/ref\/?method=microblog&amp;title=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball&amp;link=http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2010\/02\/michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball\/\" title=\"Post to Ping\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-ping.png\" alt=\"Post to Ping.fm\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2010\/02\/michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball\/&amp;title=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball\" title=\"Post to Reddit\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-reddit.png\" alt=\"Post to Reddit\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2010\/02\/michelle-obama-welcomed-harry-connick-jr-to-govenors-ball\/&amp;title=Michelle+Obama+Welcomed+Harry+Connick+Jr.+To+Govenors+Ball\" title=\"Post to StumbleUpon\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-su.png\" alt=\"Post to StumbleUpon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Michelle Obama\u00a0 and President Obama welcomed Harry Connick Jr. to the Whitehouse for their second Governors Ball on Sunday. According to the Whitehouse blog, Connick spent time with DC music students and performed. From the Whitehouse, \u201cAt 3:00 PM EST today the First Lady will give a group of Washington, DC music students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}