{"id":741899,"date":"2013-03-14T18:45:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=2781be958217d5d330355f93ea97dfe6"},"modified":"2013-03-14T18:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:45:31","slug":"nominate-a-hero-for-the-2013-citizens-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741899","title":{"rendered":"Nominate a Hero for the 2013 Citizens Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/citizensmedal\/submit-a-nomination\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/image\/daily_email_medal_blog.jpg?w=780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more 40 years, the Presidential Citizens Medal has recognized Americans who have &quot;performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.&quot; The Medal is among the highest awards a civilian can receive.<\/p>\n<p>In February, at a ceremony in the East Room, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/president-obama-presents-2012-presidential-citizens-medal\">President Obama&nbsp;honored<\/a> the recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, including twelve individuals and six educators from Sandy Hook Elementary. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/president-obama-honor-recipients-2012-citizens-medal\">read more about them here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/citizensmedal\/2012-winners\">hear their stories<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/nominate-hero-2013-citizens-medal\" >read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more 40 years, the Presidential Citizens Medal has recognized Americans who have &quot;performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.&quot; The Medal is among the highest awards a civilian can receive. In February, at a ceremony in the East Room, President Obama&nbsp;honored the recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4839,"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-741899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-3707","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741899","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\/4839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}