{"id":17850,"date":"2012-11-05T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17850"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:25:48","slug":"nyc-mayor-michael-bloomberg-endorses-pres-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17850","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Endorses Pres. Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; New York Mayor <strong>Michael Bloomberg<\/strong> backed <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> over Republican <strong>Mitt Romney<\/strong> on Thursday, saying the incumbent Democrat will bring critically needed leadership to fight climate change after the East Coast devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement from the politically independent and nationally recognizable mayor was a major boost for <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong>, who is spending the campaign\u2019s final days trying to win over independent voters whose voices will be critical in determining the winner of Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg backed President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney on Thursday, saying the incumbent Democrat will bring critically needed leadership to fight climate change after the East Coast devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy. The endorsement from the politically independent and nationally recognizable mayor was a major boost for Pres. [&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-17850","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\/17850","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=17850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}