{"id":102256,"date":"2016-06-09T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102256"},"modified":"2016-06-09T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T21:39:04","slug":"obama-endorses-clinton-praises-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102256","title":{"rendered":"Obama endorses Clinton, praises Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16950\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/obama.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama\" width=\"180\" height=\"121\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama is announcing his formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton. In an online video, Obama calls on Democrats to unify behind his former secretary of state&#8217;s bid and, in his words, &#8220;build on the progress&#8221; of his eight years in the White House. He says, &#8220;I want you to be the first to know that I&#8217;m with her.&#8221; Obama is also praising Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders for engaging young voters and highlighting the issues of income inequality and money in politics. He said, &#8220;Embracing that message is going to help us win in November.&#8221; Clinton and Obama will campaign together next week in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama is announcing his formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton. In an online video, Obama calls on Democrats to unify behind his former secretary of state&#8217;s bid and, in his words, &#8220;build on the progress&#8221; of his eight years in the White House. He says, &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102257,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102256\/revisions\/102257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}