{"id":72135,"date":"2026-04-19T10:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/obama-and-mamdani-read-and-sing-with-new-york-preschoolers-in-first-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:57:50","slug":"obama-and-mamdani-read-and-sing-with-new-york-preschoolers-in-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/obama-and-mamdani-read-and-sing-with-new-york-preschoolers-in-first-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Mamdani read and sing with New York preschoolers in first meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US president and New York mayor read to a group of children and led a sing-along at a Bronx childcare center<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York City<\/a> read to preschoolers and led a sing-along.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a week earlier, is also trying to build a working relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u2013 Obama\u2019s Republican presidential successor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/19\/obama-mamdani-first-meeting-new-york-childcare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US president and New York mayor read to a group of children and led a sing-along at a Bronx childcare center Barack Obama met with Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of New York City read to preschoolers and led &#8230; <a title=\"Obama and Mamdani read and sing with New York preschoolers in first meeting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/obama-and-mamdani-read-and-sing-with-new-york-preschoolers-in-first-meeting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Obama and Mamdani read and sing with New York preschoolers in first meeting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}