{"id":50646,"date":"2022-07-21T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50646"},"modified":"2022-07-21T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:46:52","slug":"white-house-plays-down-worries-about-biden-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50646","title":{"rendered":"White House plays down worries about Biden health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Thursday played down concerns about President Biden\u2019s health hours after announcing that he had tested positive for COVID-19, saying he was capable of handling his job even as he isolates for several days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he was feeling fine,\u201d COVID-19 coordinator Ashish Jha told reporters, reiterating what other White House officials, including the first lady, said about Biden\u2019s condition in the hours after he tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jha and press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre were peppered with questions during the briefing about whether any protocols at the White House would change given the 79-year-old&#8217;s positive test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Thursday played&#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-50646","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\/50646","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=50646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50647,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions\/50647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}