{"id":23365,"date":"2012-11-09T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T09:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=23365"},"modified":"2013-03-17T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T08:45:40","slug":"obama-back-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/multimeda\/middle-east-videos\/obama-back-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Back in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first full days after the election, it&#8217;s back to work for Barack Obama, the newly re-elected US president.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before returning to the White House Obama called leaders from the rival Republican party, who control the House of Representatives, to discuss the so-called &#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221; ahead for the country.<\/p>\n<p>The cliff facing the United States is the point at which taxes are scheduled to increase while federal spending will be cut by more than $100b, what experts say is a recipe for recession.<\/p>\n<p><em>Al Jazeera<\/em>&#8216;s Patty Culhane reports from Washington on how Democrats and Republicans remain at odds on how to tackle it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: In the first full days after the election, it&#8217;s back to work for Barack Obama, the newly re-elected US president. First call, Republicans on how to tackle the &#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1103,3462,121,1808,3460,18302,1100,1174,2020,2099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26631,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365\/revisions\/26631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}