{"id":12057,"date":"2020-04-15T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12057"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:43:23","slug":"utterly-disgraceful-headline-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12057","title":{"rendered":"Utterly disgraceful headline of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/as-us-discouraged-mask-use-for-public-white-house-team-raced-to-secure-face-coverings-from-taiwan-for-senior-staff\/2020\/04\/15\/27d815d2-7ac5-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team<br \/>raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In mid-March, a National Security Council team rushed to fix what they saw as a threat to the U.S. government\u2019s ability to function amid the advancing pandemic: a lack of masks to protect enough staff on the White House complex.<\/p>\n<p>Alarmed by the small cache and the growing signs of an acute shortage of protective gear in the United States, a senior NSC official turned to a foreign government for help, according to people familiar with the situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House teamraced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff In mid-March, a National Security Council team rushed to fix what they saw as a threat to the U.S. government\u2019s ability &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12057\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12061,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057\/revisions\/12061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}