{"id":326395,"date":"2010-02-16T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/16\/qa-with-agriculture-secretary-tom-vilsack\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T07:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T12:35:49","slug":"qa-with-agriculture-secretary-tom-vilsack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326395","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=51b177129f182bd720813d116e2120a1\" > Q&#038;A with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack  \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> When Tom Vilsack became head of the Agriculture Department last year, he faced a backlog of 11,000 civil rights complaints and several unresolved class-action lawsuits from minority farmers and ranchers. <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=51b177129f182bd720813d116e2120a1&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=51b177129f182bd720813d116e2120a1&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=a9294b01a62d3da67af58cb164a00ba2\" > USDA rules to emerge from fight over imported catfish  \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> The whiskered, bottom-feeding catfish is one of the lowliest creatures on Earth. 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USDA rules to emerge from fight over imported catfish The whiskered, bottom-feeding catfish is one of the lowliest creatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326395","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}