{"id":20588,"date":"2016-09-06T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=20588"},"modified":"2016-09-06T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:36:11","slug":"obama-announces-90-million-to-clear-laos-unexploded-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/06\/obama-announces-90-million-to-clear-laos-unexploded-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Announces $90 Million to Clear Laos&#8217; Unexploded Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/06\/asia\/laos-obama-aid-package\/\">CNN<\/a><\/em>, &#8220;President Barack Obama said Tuesday that US has an &#8216;obligation&#8217; to help Laos recover from a brutal secret bombing campaign that destroyed parts of the Southeast Asian nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While visiting the country&#8217;s capital, Obama pledged $90 million dollars to clear millions of unexploded ordinances. The joint effort will take three years. <\/p>\n<p>To learn more, please check out Mediastorm&#8217;s collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maginternational.org\">Mines Advisory Group<\/a> (MAG), <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/clients\/surviving-the-peace-laos-for-mag\">Surviving the Peace: Laos<\/a><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/clients\/surviving-the-peace-laos-for-mag\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Surviving_the_peace_Laos_512.jpg\" alt=\"Surviving_the_peace_Laos_512\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Surviving_the_peace_Laos_512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Surviving_the_peace_Laos_512-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, &#8220;President Barack Obama said Tuesday that US has an &#8216;obligation&#8217; to help Laos recover from a brutal secret bombing campaign that destroyed parts of the Southeast Asian nation.&#8221; While visiting the country&#8217;s capital, Obama pledged $90 million dollars to clear millions of unexploded ordinances. The joint effort will take three years. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1300,161,1298],"class_list":["post-20588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mediastorm-projects","tag-land-mines","tag-laos","tag-mines-advisory-group","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}