{"id":55475,"date":"2022-12-21T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55475"},"modified":"2022-12-21T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:44:42","slug":"zelensky-makes-direct-appeal-to-americans-in-historic-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55475","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky makes direct appeal to Americans in historic address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. support can help hasten the end of Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u00a0said\u00a0in an historic speech to a joint meeting of Congress\u00a0that served as a direct appeal to Americans providing billions in tax dollars to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky spoke from the podium of the House Chamber following a meeting with President Biden. He made the visit to Washington as Ukrainian forces remain engaged in battle against the Russian military and civilians are under assault of devastating missile strikes and drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope my words of respect and gratitude resonate in each American heart,\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. support can help hasten the&#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":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55475","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=55475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55476,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55475\/revisions\/55476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}