{"id":652312,"date":"2013-04-13T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=8401409c58e37e840f0f1e27d8a2f9c4"},"modified":"2013-04-13T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:28:42","slug":"president-obama-why-im-not-giving-the-weekly-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652312","title":{"rendered":"President Obama: &#8220;Why I&#8217;m not giving the Weekly Address&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, President Obama, sent the message below to the White House email list, explaining why he asked Francine Wheeler to deliver the Weekly Address. If you didn&#39;t get the email, be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/get-email-updates\">sign up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">Hello, everybody &#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">Each week, like many presidents before me, I sit down to record a short address to the nation. It&#39;s something I take very seriously because it offers a chance to bring focus to an issue that needs to be part of the national dialogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">But today, I&#39;ve asked someone to take my place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">Francine Wheeler is a mother. She and her family live in Newtown, Connecticut. Four months ago, her six year-old son Ben was murdered in his elementary school, along with 19 other children and six brave educators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">Joined by her husband David, Francine shares her perspective about the steps we can take to reduce gun violence and prevent the kind of tragedy she understands all too well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\"><b>It&#39;s a message that every American should hear:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/04\/13\/president-obama-why-im-not-giving-weekly-address\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, President Obama, sent the message below to the White House email list, explaining why he asked Francine Wheeler to deliver the Weekly Address. If you didn&#39;t get the email, be sure to sign up. Hello, everybody &#8212; Each week, like many presidents before me, I sit down to record a short address to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652312","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\/7324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}