{"id":4735,"date":"2008-11-14T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2023-01-04T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:43:16","slug":"barack-obama-thanks-political-blogger-stas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/barack-obama-thanks-political-blogger-stas\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Writes to 7-Year-Old Political Blogger Stas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stanislaw &#8220;Stas&#8221; Gunkel<\/strong> is a 7-year-old blogger, who likes to blog about politics, Barrack Obama, and Sarah Palin on his blog Report from Planet Stas&#8217;. His political influence stirred Barack Obama to send him a letter five days before the election with some invaluable advice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I leave you with three bits of advice that will make your life more fulfilling: Look out for other people, even when it does not directly benefit you; strive to make a difference everywhere you go; and get back up every time you are knocked down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This news was enough to get the mainstream media all excited and landed him an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/seven-year-old-political-blogger-gets-obama-thank-you-letter\/1844772\/\" rel=\"noopener\">interview on NBC Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew there are a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/retireat21.com\/blog\/top-30-young-bloggers-under-21\" rel=\"noopener\">young bloggers<\/a> out there, but for a 7-year-old to blog about politics and be acknowledged for it is great.<\/p>\n<p>Barack is often called America&#8217;s first &#8216;internet president&#8217;, for his mass communication via the internet, and it is amazing how he used the internet and social media to become President-Elect. I was touched when Barack Obama followed us on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanislaw &#8220;Stas&#8221; Gunkel is a 7-year-old blogger, who likes to blog about politics, Barrack Obama, and Sarah Palin on his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}