{"id":6199,"date":"2009-10-15T00:52:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T07:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/10\/obama-to-make-first-visit-to-new-orleans-as-president-cnn-com\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T00:52:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T07:52:20","slug":"obama-to-make-first-visit-to-new-orleans-as-president-cnn-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/10\/obama-to-make-first-visit-to-new-orleans-as-president-cnn-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to make first visit to New Orleans as president &#8211; CNN.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/10\/art.new.orleans.generic.gi.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"219\" alt=\"art.new.orleans.generic.gi.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/10\/15\/obama.new.orleans\/index.html\">\n<p>NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) &#8212; President Obama will visit New Orleans on Thursday for the first time since taking office, to address rebuilding efforts in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\n  President Obama will visit New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday to talk about rebuilding efforts.<\/p>\n<p>During his trip, Obama will visit a charter school and host a town hall meeting to hear residents&#8217; concerns, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s visit will focus on efforts to help rebuild the Gulf Coast, including cutting red tape and easing funding so residents can become self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president made a promise to come to New Orleans and wanted to fulfill that promise as soon as his schedule allowed,&#8221; said Nicholas Shapiro, White House spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Though this is Obama&#8217;s first trip there while in office, he has been to New Orleans five times since Katrina, Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/10\/15\/obama.new.orleans\/index.html\" ><cite>Obama to make first visit to New Orleans as president &#8211; CNN.com<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/10\/art.new.orleans.generic.gi.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"219\" alt=\"art.new.orleans.generic.gi.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/>   NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) &#8212; President Obama will visit New Orleans on Thursday for the first time since taking office, to address rebuilding efforts in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina four years ago.   &#8230;  &#8220;The president made a promise to come to New Orleans and wanted to fulfill that promise as soon as his schedule allowed,&#8221; said Nicholas Shapiro, White House spokesman.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1BZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}