{"id":419245,"date":"2021-12-05T18:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/node\/332799"},"modified":"2021-12-05T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T18:59:31","slug":"racist-travel-bans-on-african-nations-puts-political-blackface-on-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/05\/racist-travel-bans-on-african-nations-puts-political-blackface-on-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist Travel Bans on African Nations Puts Political Blackface on Omicron Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"The saddest part is that the Biden administration, despite its many positive moves to restore respect to scientific rigor, followed fear more than science in its first major action in response to the Omicron variant.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2021\/12\/05\/racist-travel-bans-african-nations-puts-political-blackface-omicron-variant\">Common Dreams - Breaking News &amp; Views for the Progressive Community<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saddest part is that the Biden administration, despite its many positive moves to restore respect to scientific rigor, followed fear more than science in its first major action in response to the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"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\/419245"}],"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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420513,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419245\/revisions\/420513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}