{"id":10548,"date":"2009-01-06T05:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T05:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/barack_obama_gets_to_work_on_very_sick_us_economy\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T05:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T05:54:53","slug":"barack_obama_gets_to_work_on_very_sick_us_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10548","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama gets to work on &#39;very sick&#39; US economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama began work in earnest yesterday, twisting arms and stroking egos in Congress to garner support for a planned $775 billion (\u00c2\u00a3525 billion) recovery plan for an economy he described as \u201cvery sick\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>On his first full day back in Washington since the election, the President-elect dispatched his daughters to their new school before heading to Capitol Hill to prepare for one of the most difficult inheritances ever faced by an incoming president.<\/p>\n<p>At every turn yesterday, he underlined the gravity of the crisis and the need for national unity. After speaking with his economic team, he declared: \u201cThe situation is getting worse. We have to act and act now to break the momentum of this recession.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article5454714.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama began work in earnest yesterday, twisting arms and stroking egos in Congress to garner support for a planned $775 billion (\u00c2\u00a3525 billion) recovery plan for an economy he described as \u201cvery sick\u201d\u009d. On his first full day back<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10548\">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":[40,149,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548","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=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}