{"id":134174,"date":"2024-06-07T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134174"},"modified":"2024-06-07T07:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:49:20","slug":"michelle-obama-calls-her-late-mom-her-rock-in-touching-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134174","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama Calls Her Late Mom\u00a0Her \u2018Rock\u2019 In Touching Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a moving Instagram post, Michelle Obama reflected on the loss of her mother, Marian Robinson, who\u00a0died last Friday, May 31, at the age of 86<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former first lady and her family eulogized Robinson and the vibrant life she led in a statement, received first by NBC News and later posted on Michelle and Barack Obama’s\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0pages.<\/p>\n

Accompanying the statement on Instagram was Michelle Obama’s touching caption, calling her mom her “rock.”<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom Marian Robinson was my rock, always there for whatever I needed,\u201d the former first lady wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was the same steady backstop for our entire family, and we are heartbroken to share she passed away today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former first lady went on to express her desire to \u201coffer some reflections on her remarkable life\u201d in a tribute that detailed her mother\u2019s early life and her marriage to Michelle Obama\u2019s father,\u00a0Fraser C. Robinson III, who died in 1991<\/a>. The statement was signed by Michelle Obama, her brother, Craig Robinson, and other members of their family. It touched on Robinson\u2019s role as a grandmother to her grandchildren \u2014 including Malia and Sacha \u2014 and mother-in-law to former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Election Night in 2008, when the news broke that Barack would soon shoulder the weight of the world, she was there holding his hand. With a healthy nudge, she agreed to move to the White House with Michelle and Barack. We needed her. The girls needed her, and she ended up being our rock through it all,\u201d the family statement reads in part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a moving Instagram post, Michelle Obama reflected on the loss of her mother, Marian Robinson, who\u00a0died last Friday, May 31, at the age of 86. The former first lady and her family eulogized Robinson and the vibrant life she led in a statement, received first by NBC News and later posted on Michelle and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-government","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134176,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134174\/revisions\/134176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}