{"id":34355,"date":"2019-03-06T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34355"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:24:09","slug":"us-senate-hears-from-teen-amid-vaccination-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34355","title":{"rendered":"US: Senate hears from teen amid vaccination debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65\">\n<p>A US teenager who got vaccinated in defiance of his mother&#8217;s wishes has appeared before a congressional committee to defend the national immunisation programme.<\/p>\n<p>More Americans are refusing to get their children inoculated against preventable diseases such as measles, which is now making a comeback in some states.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US teenager who got vaccinated in defiance of his mother&#8217;s wishes has appeared before a congressional committee to defend the national immunisation programme. More Americans are refusing to get their children inoculated against preventable diseases such as measles, which is now making a comeback in some states. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Washington,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}