{"id":686938,"date":"2010-03-09T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32722"},"modified":"2010-03-09T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:48:59","slug":"michelle-obama-inaugural-dress-debuts-in-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/686938","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama inaugural dress debuts in Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/PX254_142C_9.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PX254_142C_9.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/PX254_142C_9-thumb-500x346-18492.jpg?resize=500%2C346\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><em><br \/>\nFirst Lady Michelle Obama and her mother, Marian Robinson, looking at Mrs. Obama&#8217;s newly displayed 2009 inaugural dress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;&#8220;So here we are, it&#8217;s the dress,&#8221; said First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday, standing next to the gown she wore at the inaugural, less than an hour before it was put in a glass case in the Smithsonian as part of its permanent exhibit on First Ladies.<br \/>\nShe was joined at a ceremony at the National Museum of American History by Jason Wu, the 26-year old Taiwan born gown designer.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Obama&#8211;with her mother, Marian Robinson in the front row&#8211;along with a gang of friends from Chicago&#8211;said she found the situation&#8211;I took it be standing next to her dress, about to become part of a museum exhibit&#8211; a &#8220;little odd&#8221; but understood the historic nature of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Wu&#8211;who became famous overnight when Mrs. Obama choose his dress, put his hands over his heart and said &#8220;Mrs. Obama, thank you,&#8221; when he spoke.<\/p>\n<p>The Wu gown, Jimmy Choo high heels, earring, a ring and a bracelet are all now in a glass enclosed case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Michelle Obama and her mother, Marian Robinson, looking at Mrs. Obama&#8217;s newly displayed 2009 inaugural dress. WASHINGTON&#8211;&#8220;So here we are, it&#8217;s the dress,&#8221; said First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday, standing next to the gown she wore at the inaugural, less than an hour before it was put in a glass case in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SHE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}