{"id":12253,"date":"2016-01-15T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12253"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:23:47","slug":"washington-week-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12253","title":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/2016wash_week.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12254\" src=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/2016wash_week-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"2016wash_week\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/2016wash_week-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/2016wash_week.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>WITH GWEN IFILL<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 @ 9:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This Week on Washington Week: Obama&#8217;s Final State of the Union, Republicans Debate and Democratic Race Tightens<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In his final <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/washingtonweek\/topics\/state-union\" target=\"_blank\">State of the Union<\/a> address, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/washingtonweek\/topics\/obama-administration\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> struck an optimistic tone as he vigorously defended his record of achievements, but he also acknowledged that the partisan divide in Washington has gotten worse instead of better. The president urged lawmakers to &#8220;fix our politics&#8221; but is that possible in an election year where extreme and divisive rhetoric has become common?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/washingtonweek\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><br \/>\nFIND OUT MORE \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 @ 9:00PM This Week on Washington Week: Obama&#8217;s Final State of the Union, Republicans Debate and Democratic Race Tightens In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama struck an optimistic tone as he vigorously defended his record of achievements, but he also acknowledged that the partisan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WASHINGTON WEEK<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12256,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253\/revisions\/12256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}