{"id":10329,"date":"2008-12-24T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_obama_economic_team_tries_to_allay_worries_about_stimulus_plan\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T18:15:03","slug":"la_times_obama_economic_team_tries_to_allay_worries_about_stimulus_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10329","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Obama economic team tries to allay worries about stimulus plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a drumbeat of grim economic reports, President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s top economic advisors met Tuesday to refine plans for a massive stimulus proposal, promising the money would not go toward dubious pork-barrel projects.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President-elect Joe Biden met with seven advisors for an hour here as Obama vacationed in Hawaii. With the incoming administration acknowledging the stimulus plan could cost as much as $775 billion over two years, Biden seemed intent on reassuring Americans the money would not be wasted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-obama-econ-team24-2008dec24,0,4072432.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a drumbeat of grim economic reports, President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s top economic advisors met Tuesday to refine plans for a massive stimulus proposal, promising the money would not go toward dubious pork-barrel projects. Vice President-elect Joe Biden met with seven<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10329\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,596,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}