{"id":8656,"date":"2015-05-20T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2015-05-20T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:45:41","slug":"sawyers-05-to-portray-pres-obama-in-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/05\/20\/sawyers-05-to-portray-pres-obama-in-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawyers \u201905 to portray Pres. Obama in movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Parker-sawyers.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8657\" alt=\"Parker sawyers\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Parker-sawyers-240x300.png\" width=\"174\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Parker-sawyers-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Parker-sawyers.png 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a>Parker Sawyers \u201905<\/strong> will play President Barack Obama in a movie about the Obama\u2019s first date in Chicago.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/barackobama\/11594180\/Meet-the-West-London-actor-playing-Barack-Obama-on-the-big-screen.html\">Click here<\/a> to read more about the movie, which begins shooting in August.\u00a0 Parker has worked as a model, musician, and actor. \u00a0 He also worked for Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, the then-Republican governor of Indiana, before moving into acting.\u00a0 Parker lives with his family in West London.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Parker!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Telegraph.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parker Sawyers \u201905 will play President Barack Obama in a movie about the Obama\u2019s first date in Chicago.\u00a0 Click here to read more about the movie, which begins shooting in August.\u00a0 Parker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Parker-sawyers.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8658,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}