{"id":639532,"date":"2013-01-23T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=f942a608194bb6d1f3212d9e4daf5c66"},"modified":"2013-01-23T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:45:21","slug":"fireside-hangouts-vice-president-biden-joins-a-conversation-on-reducing-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639532","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Hangouts: Vice President Biden Joins a Conversation on Reducing Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the White House will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/president-obama-hangs-out-america\">continue<\/a> a series of conversations with top administration officials on Google+. On Thursday, January 24 at 1:45 p.m. ET, Vice President Biden will join the latest &ldquo;Fireside Hangout&rdquo; &ndash; a 21st century take on FDR&rsquo;s famous radio addresses &ndash; to talk about reducing gun violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On January 16, President Obama and Vice President Biden released a plan to help protect our children and our communities by reducing gun violence. The plan outlines specific, common-sense steps we can take right now to help keep guns out of the wrong hands, ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, make our schools safer, and increase access to mental health services. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/nowisthetime\">Learn more about the plan here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">During the hangout hosted by Google and moderated by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115316486335338050080\/posts\">Hari Sreenivasan<\/a>&nbsp;from PBS NewsHour, Vice President Biden will discuss the White House policy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/preventing-gun-violence\">recommendations on reducing gun violence<\/a>. Google+ users from the around&nbsp;the&nbsp;country will join the discussion,&nbsp;including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+GuyKawasaki\/posts\">Guy Kawasaki<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+PhilipDeFranco\/posts\">Phil DeFranco<\/a>. If you have a question, you can suggest it by writing it on the participants&rsquo; on Google+ pages.&nbsp;<b>Watch the hangout with Vice President Biden live on WhiteHouse.gov, or tune in to the White House&#39;s <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+whitehouse\/posts\"><b>Google+ page<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/whitehouse\"><b>YouTube channel<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">We&#39;ll continue to host hangouts with key members of the President&rsquo;s cabinet on a range of second term priorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+whitehouse\/posts\">Follow us on Google+<\/a> for updates from the Administration and opportunities to participate in upcoming hangouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/fb_share_vp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/fireside-hangouts-vice-president-biden-joins-conversation-reducing-gun-violence\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the White House will continue a series of conversations with top administration officials on Google+. On Thursday, January 24 at 1:45 p.m. ET, Vice President Biden will join the latest &ldquo;Fireside Hangout&rdquo; &ndash; a 21st century take on FDR&rsquo;s famous radio addresses &ndash; to talk about reducing gun violence. On January 16, President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639532","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\/7322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}