{"id":641812,"date":"2013-02-08T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=2829f3ebd01689a5270e9585c3e25d5a"},"modified":"2013-02-08T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T20:17:30","slug":"president-obama-to-honor-recipients-of-the-2012-citizens-medal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641812","title":{"rendered":"President Obama to Honor Recipients of the 2012 Citizens Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/2012-citizens-medal-open-nominations\">called on the public<\/a> to help identify outstanding Americans for the 2012 Citizens Medal, the nation&#39;s second-highest civilian honor. After receiving more than 6,000 submissions from the public, the President has selected 18 outstanding Americans to receive the award for performing &quot;exemplary deeds of service for their country and their fellow citizens.&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each winner is called, and told that the President has personally selected them to receive the Citizens Medal:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=tY1Hb1CA5jg\">Watch this video<\/a> on YouTube<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, February 15, 2013, President Obama will welcome the recipients of the 2012 Citizens Medal to the White House for a special ceremony to recognize their efforts to serve their communities, and inspire others to do the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to read the incredible stories of this year&rsquo;s Citizens Medal recipients. If you know someone like the recipients below, please take a moment to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/citizensmedal\">nominate him or her<\/a> by Sunday, March 31, 2013.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/president-obama-honor-recipients-2012-citizens-medal\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, President Obama called on the public to help identify outstanding Americans for the 2012 Citizens Medal, the nation&#39;s second-highest civilian honor. After receiving more than 6,000 submissions from the public, the President has selected 18 outstanding Americans to receive the award for performing &quot;exemplary deeds of service for their country and their fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641812","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\/7525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}