{"id":642143,"date":"2013-02-13T00:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T05:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=a92776b3110e3ec864a31e0209f37872"},"modified":"2013-02-13T00:32:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T05:32:40","slug":"americans-are-responding-to-the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642143","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are Responding to the State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier tonight, the nation heard from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/state-of-the-union-2013\">President Obama, when he laid out his plan for a strong middle class and a strong America<\/a>. And now, the White House is hearing from many of you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jason, who described himself as a veteran, told us: &quot;I went to college using the GI Bill and was able to buy a home using the VA Home Loan. Please continue to give veterans the benefits they deserve and give them more help for transitioning out of the military back into civilian life.&quot; Jason was responding to something the President said during his address: &quot;We will keep faith with our veterans &ndash; investing in world-class care, including mental health care, for our wounded warriors; supporting our military families; and giving our veterans the benefits, education, and job opportunities they have earned.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A new tool created by the White House enables Americans to find the passages in the President&#39;s speech that highlight the issues you believe are most important, and then offers you the chance to let us know why.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/13\/americans-are-responding-state-union\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier tonight, the nation heard from President Obama, when he laid out his plan for a strong middle class and a strong America. And now, the White House is hearing from many of you.&nbsp; Jason, who described himself as a veteran, told us: &quot;I went to college using the GI Bill and was able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642143","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\/7323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}