{"id":238,"date":"2023-02-03T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:19:55","slug":"sen-marco-rubio-why-didnt-biden-shoot-down-chinese-spy-balloon-over-sparsely-populated-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/sen-marco-rubio-why-didnt-biden-shoot-down-chinese-spy-balloon-over-sparsely-populated-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Marco Rubio: Why didn&#8217;t Biden Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon over Sparsely Populated Area?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio is asking the obvious question &#8211; Why didn&#8217;t President Biden shoot down the Chinese Spy Balloon BEFORE it got over the mainland United States? What a total failure on Biden&#8217;s part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was a mistake to not shoot down that Chinese spy balloon when it was over a sparsely populated area<br><br>This is not some hot air balloon, it has a large payload of sensors roughly the size of two city buses &amp; the ability to maneuver independently<\/p>&mdash; Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1621524134046867456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marco Rubio is asking the obvious question &#8211; Why didn&#8217;t President Biden shoot down the Chinese Spy Balloon BEFORE it got over the mainland United States? What a total failure on Biden&#8217;s part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden","category-china","category-china-spy-balloon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}