{"id":19483,"date":"2017-01-17T05:06:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T05:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=19483"},"modified":"2017-01-17T05:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T05:06:03","slug":"obamas-donate-sasha-malias-playground-homeless-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/obamas-donate-sasha-malias-playground-homeless-shelter.html","title":{"rendered":"Obamas donate Sasha and Malia&#8217;s playground to homeless shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Obamas donate Sasha and Malia&#8217;s playground to homeless shelter<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Obamas donate Sasha and Malia&#8217;s playground to homeless shelter:-<\/strong> With just four days left living at the White House, President Obama donated their daughters&#8217; south lawn playground to a Washington homeless shelter as part of a Martin Luther King Day service project Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Malia and Sasha&#8217;s Castle,&#8221; as the wooden play set was known, is now at the Jobs Have Priority shelter, a 28-apartment complex in southeastern Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Obamas even showed up to demonstrate how to use the equipment. The president pushed two girls in the swing, while Mrs. Obama showed a younger boy how to use the rope swing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Brings back memories,&#8221; Obama remarked while pushing the swing, noting that Sasha was not much smaller when the family moved into the White House eight years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">President and Mrs. Obama also spent about half an hour helping to paint a King-themed mural at the center, which primarily serves young African-American mothers with two to three young children, many with a mental, developmental or physical disability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The mural &#8220;Wall of Hope&#8221; was created by artist Omatayo Akinbolajo and features a painting of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Obamas painted quietly for a few moments \u2014 mostly coloring in butterflies \u2014 prompting Mrs. Obama to remark: &#8220;We are painting in silence. Does anyone have any good jokes? Age-appropriate?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Outside the shelter a crowd gathered and sang, &#8220;Obama, Obama! 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