{"id":21563,"date":"2026-04-19T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/obama-and-mamdani-meet-for-the-first-time-read-to-new-york-city-preschoolers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:22:16","slug":"obama-and-mamdani-meet-for-the-first-time-read-to-new-york-city-preschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/obama-and-mamdani-meet-for-the-first-time-read-to-new-york-city-preschoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Mamdani meet for the first time, read to New York City preschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of preschoolers in the Bronx received a visit from former President Obama and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Saturday, the first meeting between the two men coming just over a week after Mamdani marked his 100th day in office. The pair read to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5838239-obama-mamdani-bronx-preschool\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of preschoolers in the Bronx received a visit from former President Obama and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Saturday, the first meeting between the two men coming just over a week after Mamdani marked his 100th day in office. The pair read to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}