{"id":708209,"date":"2009-12-21T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.chicagonow.com,2009:\/blogs\/message-from-montie\/\/87.33857"},"modified":"2009-12-21T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:55:35","slug":"will-smith-and-jada-pinkett-smith-interview-pres-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/708209","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith interview Pres. Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith, known for million-dollar movies like &#8220;<em>Independence Day<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Hitch<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Bad Boys 1-2<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>I Am Legend<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>I, Robot<\/em>&#8221;&nbsp;was nervous. Who would think that the star of the &#8217;90s TV sitcom&nbsp;&#8220;<em>The Fresh Prince of Bel Air<\/em>&#8221; could be nervous in front of a camera? But he was nervous last week during a meeting, even with his wife at his side. Why? Because he was interviewing President Barack H. Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith stated, &#8220;This is the first time I&#8217;ve been nervous in front of a camera in a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s response? &#8220;Just think back to Prince of Bel-Air, man.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Jada Pinkett-Smith, most popularly known as Lena James from &#8220;<em>A Different World<\/em>,&#8221; the voice of the hippopotamus on &#8220;<em>Madagascar<\/em>&#8221;&nbsp;and the star of the show &#8220;<em>Hawtho<strong>RN<\/strong>e<\/em>,&#8221; seemed at ease. Check out the Smiths&#8217; interview with Obama on a Nobel Peace Prize speech comment &#8220;expanding our moral imagination,&#8221; Internet communication, putting yourself in someone else&#8217;s shoes and First Lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith, known for million-dollar movies like &#8220;Independence Day,&#8221; &#8220;Hitch,&#8221; &#8220;Bad Boys 1-2&#8221; and &#8220;I Am Legend&#8221; and &#8220;I, Robot&#8221;&nbsp;was nervous. Who would think that the star of the &#8217;90s TV sitcom&nbsp;&#8220;The Fresh Prince of Bel Air&#8221; could be nervous in front of a camera? But he was nervous last week during a meeting, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"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-708209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YeJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708209","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\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}