{"id":4659,"date":"2009-04-28T06:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2009-04-27T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T01:34:01","slug":"ill-have-my-people-look-into-this-swine-flu-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4659","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Have My People Look Into This Swine Flu Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3566\/3481990384_352b770a50.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;as soon as I get back to the office&#8230;and find them&#8230;and appoint them&#8230;oh, and once they&#8217;re confirmed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration declared a \u201cpublic health emergency\u201d Sunday to confront  the swine flu \u2014 but is heading into its first medical outbreak without a  secretary of Health and Human Services or appointees in any of the department\u2019s  19 key posts.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama has not yet chosen a surgeon general  or the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, how&#8217;s the golf game, Barack?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as soon as I get back to the office&#8230;and find them&#8230;and appoint them&#8230;oh, and once they&#8217;re confirmed. The Obama administration declared a \u201cpublic health emergency\u201d Sunday to confront the swine flu \u2014 but is heading into its first medical outbreak without a secretary of Health and Human Services or appointees in any of the department\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}