{"id":45487,"date":"2022-03-01T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45487"},"modified":"2022-03-01T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:10:40","slug":"growing-list-of-republicans-will-not-attend-sotu-over-testing-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45487","title":{"rendered":"Growing list of Republicans will not attend SOTU over testing mandate"},"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\">Several Republican lawmakers have said they will not attend\u00a0President Biden&#8217;s Tuesday State of the Union address\u00a0because of the mandated\u00a0coronavirus testing before the speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m healthy, so I won\u2019t be taking a test for COVID\u2026 so I won\u2019t be attending the\u00a0#SOTU,&#8221; Rep.\u00a0Thomas Massie\u00a0(R)\u00a0said in a tweet\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0(R-Fla.)\u00a0had\u00a0announced on Monday\u00a0that he would not attend Biden\u2019s speech because he did not have the time to get tested for the virus.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Republican lawmakers have said they&#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-45487","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\/45487","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=45487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45488,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487\/revisions\/45488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}