{"id":894,"date":"2009-01-10T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2009-01-10T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T16:18:40","slug":"obama-speaks-at-mason-on-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/10\/obama-speaks-at-mason-on-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Speaks at Mason on Economic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect\u00a0<strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>\u00a0gave an brief speech at George Mason University yesterday, urging Congress to act quickly in order to save the economy from a deeper plunge.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said that both parties need to work together on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that will \u201cjump-start\u201d jobs and create \u201clong-term growth\u201d by making energy, education, and healthcare the government\u2019s top priorities.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connect2mason.com\/obama_economy\" target=\"_blank\">full article and video of the speech<\/a> at Connect2Mason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0gave an brief speech at George Mason University yesterday, urging Congress to act quickly in order to save the economy from a deeper plunge. Obama said that both parties need to work together on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that will \u201cjump-start\u201d jobs and create \u201clong-term growth\u201d by making energy, education, and healthcare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[236,98,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}