{"id":31286,"date":"2021-02-02T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31286"},"modified":"2021-02-02T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T23:13:06","slug":"secretary-blinkens-call-with-families-of-loved-ones-held-hostage-or-wrongfully-detained-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31286","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Call With Families Of Loved Ones Held Hostage Or Wrongfully Detained Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02\/02\/2021 05:45 PM EST<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with families of Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. \u00a0Secretary Blinken reaffirmed that the United States is committed to seeking the release of their loved ones. \u00a0The Secretary stressed the importance the Biden-Harris Administration places on transparency in our communications with families and ensured that their family members are a top priority in our diplomatic engagements with both allies and adversaries. \u00a0The Secretary raised Congress\u2019s recent passage of the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act and stated the Department is committed to its full implementation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/02\/2021 05:45 PM EST Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31287,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31286\/revisions\/31287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}