{"id":30342,"date":"2024-09-12T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T21:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/barack-obama-says-stevie-wonder-gave-him-michelle-and-a-lot-of-people-hope\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T21:02:42","slug":"barack-obama-says-stevie-wonder-gave-him-michelle-and-a-lot-of-people-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/barack-obama-says-stevie-wonder-gave-him-michelle-and-a-lot-of-people-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama says Stevie Wonder gave him, Michelle and “a lot of people hope”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stevie Wonde<\/strong>r’s optimism about life has inspired\u00a0Barack<\/strong> and Michelle Obama<\/strong>, the former president reveals in a new podcast about Stevie’s career, The Wonder of Stevie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He and Michelle are featured on the final episode of the series, which captures Stevie discussing how he adopted an optimistic mindset\u00a0at a young age, when he found out he was blind.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, me being an optimist doesn\u2019t mean that I don\u2019t think tragedies won\u2019t happen, because I think part of growing is understanding pain as well as joy,” Stevie says, recalling how difficult it was for his mother to accept that he was blind. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Maybe God has something for me that\u2019s bigger than all this.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Barack then praised Wonder’s “version of optimism that is not blind to pain and tragedy and history, but that shows us what\u2019s possible, that gave me hope, gave Michelle hope, gave a lot of people hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cIt turns out that that spirit through your music has carried forward and is still doing its work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wonder of Stevie<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0specifically focuses on the five-year period in which the singer\u00a0created five hit albums and won 13 Grammys.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I reflect back on some of my fondest and proudest moments on this music journey, I am beyond humbled to have those that I respect and deeply cherish show me the kind of love that I can hear and feel in their voices,\u201d Wonder previously said of the series. It exclusively hits\u00a0Audible\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audible Stevie Wonder’s optimism about life has inspired\u00a0Barack and Michelle Obama, the former president reveals in a new podcast about Stevie’s career, The Wonder of Stevie. He and Michelle are featured on the final episode of the series, which captures Stevie discussing how he adopted an optimistic mindset\u00a0at a youngRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,48],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}