{"id":213717,"date":"2020-11-24T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=213717"},"modified":"2020-11-28T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T22:57:19","slug":"biden-delivers-thanksgiving-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=213717","title":{"rendered":"Biden Delivers Thanksgiving Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BidenThanksgivingAddress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-213728\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BidenThanksgivingAddress-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BidenThanksgivingAddress-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BidenThanksgivingAddress-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BidenThanksgivingAddress.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Wilmington, Del.\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0 A big Biden family Thanksgiving is off the table for President-elect Joe Biden because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks billed as a Thanksgiving address to the nation, the Democrat urged Americans to \u201chang on\u201d and not \u201csurrender to the fatigue\u201d after months of coping with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that public health officials have asked Americans to give up many of the traditions that make Thanksgiving special, like big indoor family get-togethers.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said he knows how hard it is to give up family traditions but that it\u2019s very important this year given the spike in virus cases, averaging about 160,000 a day.<\/p>\n<p>He urged everyone to wear masks, practice social distancing and limit the size of groups, calling it a \u201cpatriotic duty\u201d until a vaccine is approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilmington, Del.\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0 A big Biden family Thanksgiving is off the table for President-elect Joe Biden because of the pandemic. In remarks billed as a Thanksgiving address to the nation, the Democrat urged Americans to \u201chang on\u201d and not \u201csurrender to the fatigue\u201d after months of coping with the virus. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213717","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=213717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213729,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213717\/revisions\/213729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}