{"id":5237,"date":"2023-06-07T16:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/07\/new-texas-law-bans-covid-mask-vaccine-and-shutdown-mandates-but-some-republicans-want-more\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:09:44","slug":"new-texas-law-bans-covid-mask-vaccine-and-shutdown-mandates-but-some-republicans-want-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/07\/new-texas-law-bans-covid-mask-vaccine-and-shutdown-mandates-but-some-republicans-want-more\/","title":{"rendered":"New Texas law bans COVID mask, vaccine and shutdown mandates, but some Republicans want more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, Gov. Greg Abbott\u00a0has faced nagging scrutiny from fellow Republicans over his response, from ordering business closures early on to managing vaccine mandates later.\u00a0 This year, Abbott sought to quiet his critics once and for all by asking lawmakers to prioritize legislation to \u201cend COVID restrictions forever.\u201d He also asked for limits on his power to respond to a pandemic without legislative input.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, Gov. Greg Abbott\u00a0has faced nagging scrutiny from fellow Republicans over his response, from ordering business closures early on to managing vaccine mandates later.\u00a0 This year, Abbott sought to quiet his critics once and for all by asking lawmakers to prioritize legislation to \u201cend COVID restrictions forever.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}