{"id":45733,"date":"2016-02-21T23:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T23:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45733"},"modified":"2016-02-21T23:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T23:34:02","slug":"this-photo-of-obama-and-a-little-visitor-at-a-black-history-month-celebration-is-remarkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45733","title":{"rendered":"This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2016-02-20<\/p>\n

Janell Ross<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nClark Reynolds, 3, is greeted by President Obama<\/a> during a Black History Month<\/a> Celebration held Feb.18, 2016, at the White House<\/a> in Washington, D.C.<\/a> (Pete Souza<\/a>\/White House)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For 3-year-old Clark Reynolds, Thursday began like most others.<\/p>\n

Morning preparations gave way to hours at school and then a visit to his mother’s office to change into a suit and tie. Clark’s mother, Nichole Francis Reynolds, is a former congressional staffer who now works in the private sector. Friends had secured an invitation for Francis Reynolds and her son to the White House’s Black History Month<\/a> celebration, the final gathering of its kind while the first black president remains in office. But Francis Reynolds had told Clark only that he had earned a special treat. He is, after all, only 3.<\/p>\n

What Clark does know is the president’s name, his face when he sees Obama<\/a> on TV and the sound of President Obama’s<\/a> voice when it comes through the satellite radio in his dad’s car. Then, there’s Clark’s favorite book, the one that he almost always picks when it’s reading time. Clark has been through the “The White House Pop-Up Book<\/a>” by Chuck Fischer<\/a> so many times that, almost as soon as Clark and his mother walked onto the White House grounds Thursday, Clark knew where they were…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable The Washington Post 2016-02-20 Janell Ross Clark Reynolds, 3, is greeted by President Obama during a Black History Month Celebration held Feb.18, 2016, at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Pete Souza\/White House) For 3-year-old Clark Reynolds, Thursday began […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,63,8,26,20],"tags":[23039,23038,20454,23041,10877,23040,147,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-45733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-clark-reynolds","tag-francis-reynolds","tag-janell-ross","tag-nichole-francis-reynolds","tag-pete-souza","tag-peter-j-souza","tag-photography","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45734,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45733\/revisions\/45734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}