{"id":46817,"date":"2014-05-30T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=46817"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T19:22:38","slug":"v-a-sec-shinseki-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=46817","title":{"rendered":"V.A. Sec. Shinseki Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/VAlogo1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20335\" alt=\"VAlogo1\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/VAlogo1.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has resigned amid widespread troubles in the VA health care system.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President Barack Obama says he accepted the resignation with &#8220;considerable regret.&#8221; He and Shinseki met in the Oval Office on Friday morning.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shinseki had faced mounting calls to step down from lawmakers in both parties.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shinseki&#8217;s resignation comes two days after a scathing internal report found broad and deep-seated problems in the sprawling health care system. The system provides care to about 6.5 million veterans annually.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shinseki is a retired four-star Army general who has overseen the VA since the start of Obama&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has resigned amid widespread troubles in the VA health care system. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President Barack Obama says he accepted the resignation with &#8220;considerable regret.&#8221; He and Shinseki met in the Oval Office on Friday morning. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shinseki had faced mounting calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46817","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\/46817","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=46817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46819,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46817\/revisions\/46819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}