{"id":8727,"date":"2011-07-25T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8727"},"modified":"2011-07-25T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:08:44","slug":"first-lady-helping-build-home-for-homeless-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8727","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Helping Build Home For Homeless Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAYETTEVILLE, NC<\/strong> &#8212; A crew working on a boarding house for homeless women veterans got a hand Thursday from <strong>First Lady Michelle Obama<\/strong> during filming of an episode of &#8220;Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wearing a sleeveless blue top, green capris and green sneakers, the <strong>First Lady<\/strong> was cheered during her visit by hundreds of people after a crowd waited for hours in searing heat for a glimpse of the VIP visitor. But the early afternoon heat and excitement got the best of some and a handful of people fainted, requiring the care of emergency medical crews.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>First Lady<\/strong> had traveled to this North Carolina base town to view the construction of a new home for the women veterans of the Steps N Stages Jubilee House. The ABC network has said the episode is scheduled to air in October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Obama<\/strong> toured the site with <strong>Barbara Marshall<\/strong>, the 15-year Navy veteran who runs the project as a shelter for women veterans and allowed her own home to be demolished to make room for the new building. After a tour of areas including a playhouse and greenhouse, <strong>Mrs. Obama<\/strong> gave <strong>Marshall<\/strong> a hug.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters were only able to catch a glimpse of <strong>Mrs. Obama<\/strong> as she arrived at the house and later returned for the reveal wearing a different outfit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAYETTEVILLE, NC &#8212; A crew working on a boarding house for homeless women veterans got a hand Thursday from First Lady Michelle Obama during filming of an episode of &#8220;Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.&#8221; Wearing a sleeveless blue top, green capris and green sneakers, the First Lady was cheered during her visit by hundreds of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}