{"id":519664,"date":"2010-04-07T17:59:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011550203_obamasendsdelegatestohelpbuildcitiesforthefuture.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-07T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:59:46","slug":"obama-sends-delegates-to-help-build-cities-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519664","title":{"rendered":"Obama sends delegates to help build cities for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Urban Forum important, but overlooked by media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Neal Peirce and The Times for telling us about the World Urban Forum. [\u201cRe-engaging with the world\u2019s cities,\u201d Opinion, April 6.]<\/p>\n<p>I share Peirce\u2019s surprise and regret that U.S. media have failed to report this important event and the vision it nourishes. The Obama administration\u2019s participation in this dialogue points toward exactly what Peirce highlights: \u201c &#8230; the cooperative promise of building constructive relationships as a less arrogant America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The positive returns could be immeasurable.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Martha McLaren, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Urban Forum important, but overlooked by media Thanks to Neal Peirce and The Times for telling us about the World Urban Forum. [\u201cRe-engaging with the world\u2019s cities,\u201d Opinion, April 6.] I share Peirce\u2019s surprise and regret that U.S. media have failed to report this important event and the vision it nourishes. The Obama administration\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519664","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}