{"id":1389,"date":"2016-01-16T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T01:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/16\/behind-the-scenes-of-barack-obamas-interview-with-youtubes-stars\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T01:05:16","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-barack-obamas-interview-with-youtubes-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/16\/behind-the-scenes-of-barack-obamas-interview-with-youtubes-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of Barack Obama's interview with YouTube's stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON \u2014 Two hours before a live interview with President Barack Obama, Adande Thorne wasn’t nervous, at all.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t even eaten yet,” Thorne told Mashable<\/em> as he stood in the White House East Room. “That’s how that works.”<\/p>\n

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“I actually had a lot of questions for the president, so I didn’t have to prepare much. It was, make sure they’re all on the cards, let’s go,” Thorne, better known to his millions of subscribers on YouTube as “sWooZie,” said with a grin.<\/p>\n

SWooZie was one of three YouTube stars<\/a> invited to the White House to interview the president after the State of the Union, a final chapter in a years-long collaboration between the Obama administration and Google Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Youtube<\/a>, Barack Obama<\/a>, White House<\/a>, Us World<\/a>, and Politics<\/a>
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WASHINGTON \u2014 Two hours before a live interview with President Barack Obama, Adande Thorne wasn’t nervous, at all. “I haven’t even eaten yet,” Thorne told Mashable as he stood in the White House East Room. “That’s how that works.” sWoozie … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}