{"id":14272,"date":"2026-04-14T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=14272"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:38:34","slug":"sad-obama-family-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=14272","title":{"rendered":"Sad Obama family news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"40\" data-end=\"302\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Marian Robinson<\/span><\/span>, the mother of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Michelle Obama<\/span><\/span>, has died at the age of 86. Her family said she passed away peacefully, describing her as a deeply loved presence in the lives of her children, grandchildren, and friends.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"628\">The family\u2014including Michelle Obama, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Barack Obama<\/span><\/span>, and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Joe Biden<\/span><\/span> and Jill Biden\u2014paid tribute to her kindness, strength, and steady support. Michelle called her mother \u201cmy rock,\u201d while Barack Obama said there was \u201conly one Marian Robinson\u201d and praised her lasting example.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"630\" data-end=\"983\">Born in 1937 in Chicago, Marian Robinson devoted her life to her family, especially supporting Michelle Obama and her brother Craig through their upbringing. After her husband\u2019s death in 1991, she remained a central figure in the family and later helped provide stability when the Obamas lived in the White House with her granddaughters Sasha and Malia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1152\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Her passing has left the family heartbroken, with Michelle Obama noting that losing her mother marked a difficult transition into becoming the family\u2019s next matriarch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Marian Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama, has died at the age of 86. Her family said she passed away peacefully, describing her as a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=14272\" title=\"Sad Obama family news\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14274,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272\/revisions\/14274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}