{"id":134904194,"date":"2009-04-11T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T09:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134904194"},"modified":"2009-04-11T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T09:23:14","slug":"obama-picks-porcari-for-transportation-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134904194","title":{"rendered":"Obama picks Porcari for Transportation post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama turned to Maryland for another high-level appointment Friday as the White House announced that he intends to name Maryland Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari to the No. 2 position in the U.S. Department of Transportation.<br \/>\nIn choosing Porcari, Obama has selected one of the few state transportation secretaries whose portfolio includes all the major modes of travel &#8211; highways, aviation, mass transit, maritime commerce and rail freight. If he clears the required background checks and is confirmed by the Senate, Porcari would serve as deputy to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former Illinois congressman and a Republican.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/nation\/politics\/bal-md.porcari11apr11,0,6279169.story\">https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/nation\/politics\/bal-md.porcari11apr11,0,6279169.story<\/a>oldId.20090411092314269<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama turned to Maryland for another high-level appointment Friday as the White House announced that he intends to name Maryland Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari to the No. 2 position in the U.S. Department of Transportation. In choosing Porcari, Obama has selected one of the few state transportation secretaries whose portfolio includes all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134904194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama picks Porcari for Transportation post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134904194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134904194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134904194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134904194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134904194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134904194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134904194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}