{"id":4769,"date":"2013-05-01T17:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2013-05-01T17:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:20:39","slug":"get-your-feet-off-the-table-mr-president-obamas-laid-back-style-revealed-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=4769","title":{"rendered":"Get your feet off the table Mr President! Obama&#8217;s laid-back style revealed in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/o1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4765\" alt=\"o1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/o1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/o1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/o1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/o1-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A series of official White House photographs brought together by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2013\/04\/barack-obama-laid-back\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Vanity Fair<\/b><\/a> show the &#8216;lean-back&#8217; nature of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures reveal that Mr Obama often exhibits relaxed body language in stressful situations, with legs crossed and a knee raised.<\/p>\n<p>Most noticeable of all, the president often has his feet up on his desk. But this is not just any desk &#8211; the Resolute desk was given to President Rutherford B. Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880.<\/p>\n<p>In the pictures President Obama can be seen discussing affairs of the state with his advisers and counselors.<\/p>\n<p>Yet whether they are debating tragic events or vital economic policy, the president is often more reclined than those around him.<\/p>\n<p>When talking about the Newtown shootings, foreign policy in Egypt or Libya, or in deficit-reduction talks Obama can be seen with his legs crossed or his head in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>But most frequently the president has his feet on the famous Resolute desk in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of official White House photographs brought together by Vanity Fair show the &#8216;lean-back&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}