{"id":32228,"date":"2018-04-28T06:47:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32228"},"modified":"2018-04-28T06:47:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T13:47:20","slug":"saturday-smile-who-knew-a-funeral-could-be-so-much-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/28\/saturday-smile-who-knew-a-funeral-could-be-so-much-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Smile &#8211; Who Knew A Funeral Could Be So Much Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago today the world observed the passing of a much-loved political matriarch in a solemn ceremony celebrating the life of <strong>Barbara Bush<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean there weren&#8217;t some lighter moments we can enjoy.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s begin by asking:<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>Who&#8217;s Missing from This Group Photo?<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Funeral_Barbara-Bush_Presidents_Wives_Missing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Funeral_Barbara-Bush_Presidents_Wives_Missing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Funeral_Barbara-Bush_Presidents_Wives_Missing.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Funeral_Barbara-Bush_Presidents_Wives_Missing-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Funeral_Barbara-Bush_Presidents_Wives_Missing-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>Well, other than Barbara &#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>But the biggest buzz revolved around that serene smile <strong>Melania<\/strong> shared with <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It immediately brought back memories of the Trump Inaugural <del>festivities<\/del> fiasco.\u00a0 Who can forget this iconic moment?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Trump_Melania_Fake-Smile-Vanishes_1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Trump_Melania_Fake-Smile-Vanishes_1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a performance so amazingly well executed it resulted in this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump.jpg 404w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Oscar_Fake-Smile_Inauguration_Trump-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the big question all centered around Melania&#8217;s smile that she shared with Pres. Obama.\u00a0 Why, there even was a quiz:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pop Quiz: Of these two photos of Melania Trump, which one was taken at a funeral?<br \/>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hZSU6jAi2w\">pic.twitter.com\/hZSU6jAi2w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u26a0Kimexander Hamilton (@YippeeKimYay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YippeeKimYay\/status\/987731121310846976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And of course everyone is wondering what exactly did Pres. Obama say to Melania that generated such a genuine (and very rare) smile.<\/p>\n<p>But as it turns out, Obama didn&#8217;t say anything that caused her to smile.\u00a0 But he did figure it out &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION.png 453w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION-137x150.png 137w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION-273x300.png 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago today the world observed the passing of a much-loved political matriarch in a solemn ceremony celebrating the life of Barbara Bush. But that doesn&#8217;t mean there weren&#8217;t some lighter moments we can enjoy.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s begin by asking: Who&#8217;s Missing from This Group Photo? Well, other than Barbara &#8230; But the biggest buzz <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/28\/saturday-smile-who-knew-a-funeral-could-be-so-much-fun\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}