{"id":45966,"date":"2022-03-11T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45966"},"modified":"2022-03-11T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:50:16","slug":"biden-democrats-feel-new-political-pain-on-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45966","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Democrats feel new political pain on inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0got a fresh jolt of political pain on Thursday with the release of new data showing inflation reaching a 40-year high of 7.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The startling figure was a reminder, even amid the international crisis sparked by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, that the fate of Democrats in this November\u2019s midterm elections will be decided by issues close to home.<\/p>\n<p>If Democrats lose control of Congress, Biden will be tightly constrained for the last two years of his first term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0got a fresh jolt 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":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966","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=45966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45967,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966\/revisions\/45967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}