{"id":320947,"date":"2010-02-14T20:45:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T01:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32048"},"modified":"2010-02-14T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T01:51:09","slug":"biden-vancouver-olympics-motorcade-accident-peggy-fleming-vonetta-flowers-minor-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/320947","title":{"rendered":"Biden Vancouver Olympics motorcade accident: Peggy Fleming, Vonetta Flowers &#8220;minor injuries&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/2010\/02\/valerie_jarrett.html\">Valerie Jarrett in Vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/2010\/02\/vancouver_winter_olympic_games.html\">The U.S. official delegation to 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><big><em>from Biden&#8217;s office&#8230;<\/em><\/big><\/p>\n<p>\nTHE WHITE HOUSE<br \/>\nOffice of the Vice President<\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release<br \/>\nFebruary 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p>STATEMENT FROM JAY CARNEY, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT <\/p>\n<p>Below is a statement from Jay Carney, Communications Director for Vice President <br \/>\nBiden, regarding a motor vehicle incident earlier today<br \/>\nin Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earlier this afternoon, a van  in the Vice President&#8217;s<br \/>\nmotorcade carrying members of the official US Olympic Games Delegation was <br \/>\ninvolved in a minor accident while traveling to an event.  Two<br \/>\nmembers of the delegation, Peggy Fleming and Vonetta Flowers, received<br \/>\nminor injuries and were taken to a local hospital as a precaution. They were <br \/>\nboth evaluated and have since been released. Neither the Vice President nor <br \/>\nanyone else in his party was involved in the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related: Valerie Jarrett in Vancouver The U.S. official delegation to 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics from Biden&#8217;s office&#8230; THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President For Immediate Release February 15, 2010 STATEMENT FROM JAY CARNEY, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT Below is a statement from Jay Carney, Communications Director for Vice President Biden, regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}