{"id":30751,"date":"2012-02-09T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_white_house_seeks_to_soothe_concerns_over_contraception_rul\/"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:16:49","slug":"washington_post_white_house_seeks_to_soothe_concerns_over_contraception_rul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30751","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) White House seeks to soothe concerns over contraception rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration\u2019s response Tuesday came on two tracks \u201d\u201d with officials telling liberal groups and lawmakers that they were not backing down, while trying to assure religious groups that a phase-in period will allow the two sides to agree on an approach to putting the rule into practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are conversations right now to arrange a meeting to talk with folks about how this policy can be nuanced,\u201d\u009d said Joel C. Hunter, a Florida megachurch pastor who has grown personally close to Obama and advised his White House on religious issues. \u201cThis is so fixable, and we just want to get into the conversation.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama is taking the objections of the Catholic leaders \u201cseriously\u201d\u009d and will seek to implement the policy in a way that \u201callays some of those concerns.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/obama-advisors-seek-compromise-on-contraception-rule\/2012\/02\/06\/gIQAlUwrwQ_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration\u2019s response Tuesday came on two tracks \u201d\u201d with officials telling liberal groups and lawmakers that they were not backing down, while trying to assure religious groups that a phase-in period will allow the two sides to agree on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30751\">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":[39,40,42,513,168,104,96,616,154,151,667,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30751","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=30751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}