{"id":2636,"date":"2007-07-12T07:25:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2007-07-12T07:25:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:25:19","slug":"mesquite-boy-named-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/mesquite-boy-named-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesquite boy named President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wish.org\/var\/wish_user\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/wish_story_images\/high_tech_professional\/professional\/sterling_president_limo\/32520-1-eng-US\/sterling_president_limo_medium.jpg\" align=left>Twelve-year-old <strong>Sterling Watson<\/strong>, of Mesquite, Texas was named President of the US for a day thanks to the Make A Wish Foundation.<br \/>\nWith the help of a dozen or so government agencies, Sterling, who was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma, appointed members of his family to his cabinet, was greeted by the US Army\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 3rd Infantry Division Band with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hail to the Chief\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and presented the division\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s soldiers with ceremonial gifts &#8211; red pencils printed with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153President Sterling Watson.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nSterling also gave a speech to the US Postal Service, received a briefing at the Department of Health and Human Services, visited 150 employees at U.S. Customs and Border Protection and held a press conference to name one of the agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new canines. He chose the name Yeller.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is only in America that a little boy from Mesquite, Texas, can wish of someday being President of the United States and actually have that wish come true,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sterling said after being inaugurated.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wish.org\/stories\/hitech\/professional\/sterling_president\">Read the full story from Make A Wish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve-year-old Sterling Watson, of Mesquite, Texas was named President of the US for a day thanks to the Make A Wish Foundation. With the help of a dozen or so government agencies, Sterling, who was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma, appointed members of his family to his cabinet, was greeted by the US Army\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 3rd Infantry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/mesquite-boy-named-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mesquite boy named President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}