{"id":33412,"date":"2021-03-29T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33412"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:55:35","slug":"biden-calls-on-states-to-keep-mask-mandates-pause-reopenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33412","title":{"rendered":"Biden calls on states to keep mask mandates, pause reopenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">President Biden\u00a0on Monday urged state\u00a0and\u00a0local officials\u00a0to reconsider lifting coronavirus restrictions and to reinstate mask mandates that have lapsed as the U.S. faces an increase in cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m reiterating my call for every governor, mayor and local leader to maintain and\u00a0reinstate\u00a0the\u00a0mask mandate,&#8221; Biden said at an event intended to highlight the rapid increase in vaccine eligibility. &#8220;Please, this is not politics. Reinstate the mandate if you let it down.<\/p>\n<p>Asked later if some states should pause reopening efforts, Biden said &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0on Monday urged state\u00a0and\u00a0local officials\u00a0to&#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-33412","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\/33412","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=33412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33413,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33412\/revisions\/33413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}