{"id":51346,"date":"2023-01-07T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=51346"},"modified":"2023-01-07T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T08:56:53","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-elected-republican-u-s-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2023\/01\/07\/kevin-mccarthy-elected-republican-u-s-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy elected Republican U.S. House speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives early on Saturday, after making extensive concessions, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCarthy&#8217;s victory in the 15th ballot saw him win at last on a margin of 216-212, bringing an end to the deepest congressional dysfunction in over 160 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was able to be elected with the votes of fewer than half the House members only because six in his own party withheld their votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives early on Saturday, after making extensive concessions, Reuters reported. McCarthy&#8217;s victory in the 15th ballot saw him win at last on a margin of 216-212, bringing an end to the deepest congressional dysfunction in over 160 years. He was able to be elected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51348,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51346\/revisions\/51348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}