{"id":1632,"date":"2019-08-06T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2019-08-07T08:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T08:57:49","slug":"senators-flake-and-coons-respond-to-president-trumps-tweet-about-south-africa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"Senators Flake and Coons respond to President Trump\u2019s tweet about South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senators Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s unfortunate tweet in response to a Fox News broadcast should not distract the United States from improving relations with South Africa. As members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, we care deeply about the United<br \/>\nStates&#8217; relationships with all African countries. Constructive relationships require measured dialogue as opposed to arbitrary tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senators Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542,203,12,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-post","category-international","category-south-africa","category-trending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}