{"id":23591,"date":"2018-01-12T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/12\/oprah-winfrey-unlikely-to-run-for-us-president-but-could-win-if-she-did\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:35:30","slug":"oprah-winfrey-unlikely-to-run-for-us-president-but-could-win-if-she-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=23591","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey: unlikely to run for US president but could win if she did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Winfrey did become president, it would be the incredible climax to her rags to riches life story that already seems impossibleOprah Winfrey was four-and-a-half years old, maybe five, when she decided she wasn\u2019t going to have the life expected of her. She was raised on a small Mississippi farm by her grandmother, whose highest hope for her granddaughter was that when she became someone\u2019s domestic worker, she would be treated kindly by her employers. \u201cI just hope you get some good white folks when you grow up, treat you right, treat you nice,\u201d Winfrey said her grandmother told her. This week, there has been fevered speculation that Winfrey might run for president of the US. And that she might win \u2013 one poll found 48% of US voters would choose Winfrey, with 38% voting for Trump.\u201cOprah Winfrey can achieve anything she wants to achieve,\u201d says her friend Richard Sher, the man she shared a sofa with on her first talkshow in 1976. He says he spoke to her after the Golden Globes, where she received the Cecil B DeMille achievement award and delivered a speech that had Oprah2020 trending on Twitter. Did she give any indication she was thinking of running for president? \u201cShe gave me the indication that she\u2019s not thinking about [running]. I don\u2019t think this is going to be something she wants to do.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2018\/jan\/12\/oprah-winfrey-unlikely-to-run-for-us-president-but-could-win-if-she-did\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah Winfrey: unlikely to run for US president but could win if she did<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Winfrey did become president, it would be the incredible climax to her rags to riches life story that already seems impossibleOprah Winfrey was four-and-a-half years old, maybe five, when she decided she wasn\u2019t going to have the life expected of her. She was raised on a small Mississippi farm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}