{"id":34000,"date":"2021-07-13T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2021\/jul\/12\/us-politics-joe-biden-afghanistan-us-commander-latest"},"modified":"2021-07-13T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:59:51","slug":"texas-democrats-flee-austin-we-are-now-taking-the-fight-to-our-nations-capitol-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34000","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats flee Austin: \u2018We are now taking the fight to our nation\u2019s Capitol\u2019 \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Republicans attempting to use special session to pass bill<\/li>\n<li>Four-star general Scott Miller announces departure in Kabul<\/li>\n<li>Biden says \u2018We stand with the Cuban people\u2019 amid protests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-07-12T23:59:51.881Z\">12.59am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all for today, thanks for following along. Some key events and links: <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-07-12T23:41:58.324Z\">12.41am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><em>An update from the Guardian and AP on the severe heatwave and wildfires impacting the US west:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are working in extreme heat to contain a number of wildfires raging across the US west, with the largest burning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> and Oregon, as another heatwave bakes the region and puts strain on power grids.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jul\/11\/northern-california-wildfire-heatwave\">Wildfires blaze across western states as heatwave shatters records<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2021\/jul\/12\/us-politics-joe-biden-afghanistan-us-commander-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans attempting to use special session to pass billFour-star general Scott Miller announces departure in KabulBiden says \u2018We stand with the Cuban people\u2019 amid protests 12.59am BST That\u2019s all for today, thanks for following along. Some key events&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,939,61,234,473,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-congress","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34001,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34000\/revisions\/34001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}