{"id":647124,"date":"2013-03-15T17:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=93ac49a7fc8c462d353dc0427fcb0b26"},"modified":"2013-03-15T17:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:08:47","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-we-dont-have-a-moment-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647124","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Up: \u201cWe Don\u2019t Have a Moment to Waste\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=N09SRUR_wnU\">Watch the West Wing Week here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>International Courage Awards: Last Friday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/first-lady-michelle-obama-and-secretary-state-john-kerry-present-international-women\">First Lady joined Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department for the International Women of Courage Awards<\/a>&mdash;where nine different women were honored. The event was a celebration of the strength and sacrifice of individuals who have worked tirelessly for the advancement of women&rsquo;s rights for all.<\/p>\n<p>Trade Export Council: On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/president-obama-talks-trade-his-export-council\">President Obama touched base with business and government leaders at a meeting of the President&rsquo;s Export Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The good news is we are well on our way to meeting a very ambitious goal that we set several years ago to double U.S. exports,&rdquo; said the President. &ldquo;And what we know is, is that a lot of the growth, a lot of the new jobs that we&#39;ve seen during the course of this recovery, have been export-driven.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To maintain and ignite growth, President Obama discussed finishing new trade deals with Europe and the Asia-Pacific. The Administration passed legislation in 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/president-obama-signs-historic-legislation-signaling-progress-trade-and-jobs\">supporting free trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama<\/a> which has kept America competitive in foreign trade, while creating jobs for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Sultan of Brunei: On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/president-obama-meets-sultan-brunei-1\">President Obama welcomed His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei to the Oval Office for a bilateral meeting<\/a> to share their desire for &ldquo;a strong, peaceful, prosperous Asia-Pacific region.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Brunei, a small country in the South China Sea, will be holding the ASEAN East Asia Summit meeting in October. The visit is a symbol of the President&rsquo;s goal of working towards a peaceful and prosperous presence in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/15\/weekly-wrap-we-don-t-have-moment-waste\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the West Wing Week here. International Courage Awards: Last Friday, the First Lady joined Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department for the International Women of Courage Awards&mdash;where nine different women were honored. The event was a celebration of the strength and sacrifice of individuals who have worked tirelessly for the advancement [&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-647124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647124","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=647124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}