{"id":698484,"date":"2010-03-23T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80115"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:40:34","slug":"most-awkward-dinner-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/698484","title":{"rendered":"Most Awkward. Dinner. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A terse account from the White House press shop:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last evening, the Vice President and General Jones had a working dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Barak at the Vice President\u2019s residence at the Naval Observatory, together with their delegations. They had a productive, candid discussion on the full range of issues in the bilateral relationship, in preparation for the meeting later today between the President and the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose the timeline is such that after dinner, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80058\/netanyahu-to-aipac-jerusalem-is-not-a-settlement\">Netanyahu went to AIPAC and gave his rather defiant speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terse account from the White House press shop: Last evening, the Vice President and General Jones had a working dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Barak at the Vice President\u2019s residence at the Naval Observatory, together with their delegations. They had a productive, candid discussion on the full range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VHS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800079,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698484\/revisions\/800079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}