{"id":1318,"date":"2016-01-13T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/obama-puts-biden-in-mission-control-of-new-push-to-cure-cancer\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T03:35:13","slug":"obama-puts-biden-in-mission-control-of-new-push-to-cure-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/obama-puts-biden-in-mission-control-of-new-push-to-cure-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama puts Biden in &#039;mission control&#039; of new push to cure cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"42-81265207\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzEzLzhkLzQyODEyNjUyMDcuMzlhNmMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/a5981bbf\/e5e\/42-81265207.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Obama+puts+Biden+in+%27mission+control%27+of+new+push+to+cure+cancer&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F12%2Fobama-biden-cancer-state-of-the-union%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F12%2Fobama-biden-cancer-state-of-the-union%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Barack Obama tasked Vice President Joe Biden to run &#8220;mission control&#8221; on a very personal mission for him: A &#8220;moonshot&#8221; to cure cancer, which killed Biden&#8217;s son, Beau, earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer. Last month, he worked with this Congress to give scientists at the National Institutes of Health the strongest resources they\u2019ve had in over a decade,&#8221; Obama said to a bipartisan standing ovation, one of the strongest of the night.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/12\/obama-guns-state-of-the-union\/\">Obama barely mentions guns in his final State of the Union address<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/12\/obama-biden-cancer-state-of-the-union\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/barack-obama\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Barack Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/joe-biden\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Joe Biden<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/cancer\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Cancer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/state-of-the-union\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">State Of The Union<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/kNRQasU7K_c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Barack Obama tasked Vice President Joe Biden to run &#8220;mission control&#8221; on a very personal mission for him: A &#8220;moonshot&#8221; to cure cancer, which killed Biden&#8217;s son, Beau, earlier this year. &#8220;Last year, Vice President Biden said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/obama-puts-biden-in-mission-control-of-new-push-to-cure-cancer\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[965,969,968,910,732],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-barack-obama","tag-cancer","tag-joe-biden","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}