{"id":7875,"date":"2011-03-06T14:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T21:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2011-03-06T14:28:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T21:28:30","slug":"white-house-considers-tapping-oil-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=7875","title":{"rendered":"White House considers tapping oil reserves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20110306\/pl_nm\/us_usa_energy_reserves\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20110306\/pl_nm\/us_usa_energy_reserves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no good reason to do this. The price of oil isn&#8217;t even high as it was in 2008. And a price increase is NOT an emergency. The key line in this story is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Higher oil prices could undermine the fragile U.S. economic recovery and politically damage President Barack Obama as he moves toward his 2012 re-election bid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reserves are there to address a REAL emergency. Not for some bozo politician&#8217;s re-election concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20110306\/pl_nm\/us_usa_energy_reserves There is no good reason to do this. The price of oil isn&#8217;t even high as it was in 2008. And a price increase is NOT an emergency. The key line in this story is: &#8220;Higher oil prices could undermine the fragile U.S. economic recovery and politically damage President Barack Obama as he moves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-7875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}