{"id":42859,"date":"2009-11-16T11:42:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"6461 at http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov"},"modified":"2009-11-16T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T16:42:41","slug":"a-tale-of-two-katies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/42859","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Katies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&rsquo;s updates were dispatched from Shanghai by two women named Katie, which seems like quite a coincidence until you learn that Katie is the most common name at the Obama White House, hands down.<\/p>\n<p>The first, Katie Lillie, is an Obama veteran. She was an intrepid &ldquo;press wrangler&rdquo; during the campaign, a staffer who is embedded with the traveling press corps, helping make sure all their movements go smoothly. So it was a natural move for her to become the Director of Press Advance in the administration, coordinating press logistics on a grander scale. Since taking that position she has traveled 10&rsquo;s of thousands miles and is working on her second passport, having filled the first to the brim with stamps and visas. What was so amazing to her about today&rsquo;s town hall in Shanghai, was the similarities it had to hundreds of events held all over the United States during the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&rsquo;s updates were dispatched from Shanghai by two women named Katie, which seems like quite a coincidence until you learn that Katie is the most common name at the Obama White House, hands down. The first, Katie Lillie, is an Obama veteran. She was an intrepid &ldquo;press wrangler&rdquo; during the campaign, a staffer who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}