{"id":11166,"date":"2021-01-21T06:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118662\/purge-joe-bidens-first-day-president"},"modified":"2021-01-21T06:56:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:56:30","slug":"purge-on-joe-bidens-first-day-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/purge-on-joe-bidens-first-day-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Purge on Joe Biden\u2019s first day as president"},"content":{"rendered":"At least four Trump appointed officials were fired, told to resign or placed on administrative leave on Joe Biden\u2019s first day as US president.One of them, former president\u2019s Donald Trump\u2019s hand-picked chief of US international broadcasting quit amid a burgeoning staff revolt and growing calls for his resignation.Michael Pack resigned as the chief executive office of the US Agency for Global Media just minutes after Biden was inaugurated on Wednesday. The agency runs the Voice of America and\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118662\/purge-joe-bidens-first-day-president\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least four Trump appointed officials were fired, told to resign or placed on administrative leave on Joe Biden\u2019s first day as US president.One of them, former president\u2019s Donald Trump\u2019s hand-picked chief of US international broadcasting quit amid a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11167,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions\/11167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}