{"id":8618,"date":"2011-07-21T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2011-07-21T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T16:11:47","slug":"pres-obama-appoints-new-head-of-consumer-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8618","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Appoints  New Head Of  Consumer Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212;<strong> President Barack Obama<\/strong> is vowing to fight any efforts to block the work of a new consumer protection bureau as he introduces a former Ohio attorney general to run the agency.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the Senate, <strong>Richard Cordray<\/strong> would head the agency tasked with being a government watchdog over mortgages, credit cards and other forms of lending. <strong>Obama<\/strong> says the agency will protect the public from financial fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama is vowing to fight any efforts to block the work of a new consumer protection bureau as he introduces a former Ohio attorney general to run the agency. If confirmed by the Senate, Richard Cordray would head the agency tasked with being a government watchdog over mortgages, credit cards and [&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-8618","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\/8618","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=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}