{"id":33338,"date":"2013-01-11T06:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33338"},"modified":"2013-01-11T06:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:48:29","slug":"obama-nominates-lew-to-succeed-geithner-at-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2013\/obama-nominates-lew-to-succeed-geithner-at-treasury.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama nominates Lew to succeed Geithner at Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated his chief of staff, Jack Lew, as the next Treasury secretary, praising him as a expert on the pressing national issues of U.S. government spending cuts and deficit reduction.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the Senate as expected, Lew would succeed Timothy Geithner and take the lead on difficult negotiations with Congress on how to cut the nation&#8217;s massive debt and rein in spending &#8211; a central challenge for Obama&#8217;s second term.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/01\/10\/us-obama-treasury-lew-idUSBRE9080SU20130110\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated his chief of staff, Jack Lew, as the next Treasury secretary, praising him as a expert on the pressing national issues of U.S. government spending cuts and deficit reduction. If confirmed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33339,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338\/revisions\/33339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}