{"id":737648,"date":"2013-02-08T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=2829f3ebd01689a5270e9585c3e25d5a"},"modified":"2013-02-08T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T20:17:30","slug":"president-obama-to-honor-recipients-of-the-2012-citizens-medal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/737648","title":{"rendered":"President Obama to Honor Recipients of the 2012 Citizens Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/2012-citizens-medal-open-nominations\">called on the public<\/a> to help identify outstanding Americans for the 2012 Citizens Medal, the nation&#39;s second-highest civilian honor. After receiving more than 6,000 submissions from the public, the President has selected 18 outstanding Americans to receive the award for performing &quot;exemplary deeds of service for their country and their fellow citizens.&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each winner is called, and told that the President has personally selected them to receive the Citizens Medal:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=tY1Hb1CA5jg\">Watch this video<\/a> on YouTube<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, February 15, 2013, President Obama will welcome the recipients of the 2012 Citizens Medal to the White House for a special ceremony to recognize their efforts to serve their communities, and inspire others to do the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to read the incredible stories of this year&rsquo;s Citizens Medal recipients. If you know someone like the recipients below, please take a moment to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/citizensmedal\">nominate him or her<\/a> by Sunday, March 31, 2013.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/president-obama-honor-recipients-2012-citizens-medal\" >read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, President Obama called on the public to help identify outstanding Americans for the 2012 Citizens Medal, the nation&#39;s second-highest civilian honor. After receiving more than 6,000 submissions from the public, the President has selected 18 outstanding Americans to receive the award for performing &quot;exemplary deeds of service for their country and their fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-737648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35Ty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737648","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\/4887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}