{"id":641809,"date":"2013-02-08T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=97e60057da159d094641f4a290f0a0f7"},"modified":"2013-02-08T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:21:37","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-we-can-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641809","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Up: \u201cWe Can Make a Difference\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/01\/25\/weekly-wrap-our-people-our-future\">Watch the West Wing Week Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov:<\/p>\n<p>Common-sense reforms: On Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/preventing-violence-president-obama-asks-americans-stand-and-say-time-its-different\">President Obama traveled Midwest to Minneapolis<\/a> to speak with local police, community leaders and folks who have experienced gun violence in their family. The President firmly believes &ldquo;law enforcement and other community leaders must have a seat at the table.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With mounting support for universal background checks, President Obama is driving Congress to listen and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/preventing-gun-violence\">take action<\/a>. While pressing for background checks, the President did not let up.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We shouldn&rsquo;t stop there. We should restore the ban on military-style assault weapons and a 10-round limit for magazines,&rdquo; said President Obama. &ldquo;And that deserves a vote in Congress &#8212; because weapons of war have no place on our streets, or in our schools, or threatening our law enforcement officers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=wtCzZgMzmmA\">here<\/a> and read our blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/keeping-demand-action-gun-violence\">tracking the two weeks since President Obama released his plan<\/a> for reducing gun violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/weekly-wrap-we-can-make-difference\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the West Wing Week Here. Here&rsquo;s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov: Common-sense reforms: On Monday, President Obama traveled Midwest to Minneapolis to speak with local police, community leaders and folks who have experienced gun violence in their family. The President firmly believes &ldquo;law enforcement and other community leaders must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641809","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\/7329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}