{"id":56570,"date":"2015-01-29T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=56570"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T12:50:05","slug":"white-house-defends-michelle-obamas-attire-in-saudi-arabia-56570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/white-house-defends-michelle-obamas-attire-in-saudi-arabia-56570\/","title":{"rendered":"White House defends Michelle Obama\u2019s attire in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56572\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/White-House-Michelle-Obama-Saudi-Arabia.jpg\" alt=\"White House Michelle Obama Saudi Arabia\" width=\"610\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/White-House-Michelle-Obama-Saudi-Arabia.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/White-House-Michelle-Obama-Saudi-Arabia-280x163.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>The White House on defended first lady Michelle Obama\u2019s attire while in Saudi Arabia. Michelle Obama was met with online criticism for not wearing a headscarf while in Saudi Arabia.<\/h1>\n<p>The first lady met controversy on social media for foregoing a headscarf or veil while in the religiously conservative Saudi nation. Saudi women are required to be covered in public, and most wear the niqab, a full-body covering that leaves only a small slit for eyes.<\/p>\n<p>But the regulations do not apply to foreigners, and Obama did wear loose-fitting clothing that covered her arms and shoulders during her trip as part of a U.S. delegation.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Eric Schultz said that Obama\u2019s choice in clothing falls in line with what previous first ladies and former American and foreign officials have worn in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>He said that she \u201cfelt like she was warmly welcomed\u201d by Saudi King Salman, and that they \u201chad a very good discussion that included catching up on their families, and also a new school that the king had built to help 60,000 women get educated.\u201d<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on defended first lady Michelle Obama\u2019s attire while in Saudi Arabia. Michelle Obama was met with online criticism for not wearing a headscarf while in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,101,14],"tags":[629,8467,542,3469,1388],"class_list":["post-56570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-politics","category-world","tag-barack-obama","tag-michelle-obama","tag-obama","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}