{"id":13211,"date":"2012-03-05T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13211"},"modified":"2012-03-05T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:26:31","slug":"president-obama-raises-5-million-in-7-hours-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13211","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Raises $5 Million In 7 Hours In  New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> was in New York on Thursday evening on a whirlwind fundraising tour. In a mere seven hours, the leader of the free world was able to amass $5 million in campaign contributions garnered from Gotham&#8217;s well-heeled citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The headlining event of the night was a $35,000 per plate f\u00eate held at ABC Kitchen, an organic restaurant on E. 18th street, hosted by celebrity chef and hot spot co-owner <strong>Jean-Georges Vongerichten<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After paying a premium to dine with the President, Democratic party patrons joined the Commander-in-Chief at the nearby ABC Carpet &amp; Home furnishings emporium.<\/p>\n<p>There, the stylish crowd jammed with the president to live tunes served up by <strong>The Roots<\/strong> and <strong>Ben Folds<\/strong>.\u00a0 The other three fundraisers included a reception held at &#8220;a Manhattan penthouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> is familiar with the deep pockets and effusive support available to him and the Democratic National Committee via the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2011, he attended a dinner at popular Harlem restaurant Red Rooster that pulled in an astounding $1.5 million through a &#8220;$30,800-a-plate soiree.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama was in New York on Thursday evening on a whirlwind fundraising tour. In a mere seven hours, the leader of the free world was able to amass $5 million in campaign contributions garnered from Gotham&#8217;s well-heeled citizens. The headlining event of the night was a $35,000 per plate f\u00eate held at ABC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}