{"id":41078,"date":"2021-10-12T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41078"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:47:51","slug":"texas-governor-opens-new-front-on-vaccine-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41078","title":{"rendered":"Texas governor opens new front on vaccine mandates"},"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\">Texas Gov.\u00a0Greg Abbott\u00a0(R) is opening a new front in the war over vaccine mandates, setting up a showdown with the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott on Monday issued an executive order banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates by any \u201centity in Texas,\u201d including private businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott\u2019s move is an escalation in the Republican battle against vaccine mandates, something that many public health experts view as a key tool in the fight against the pandemic, given that voluntary efforts like incentives have hit their limits. The politicization of vaccine mandates could also undermine vaccination efforts even for other diseases, some experts warn.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov.\u00a0Greg Abbott\u00a0(R) is opening a&#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-41078","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\/41078","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=41078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41079,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41078\/revisions\/41079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}