{"id":24606,"date":"2014-09-03T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24606"},"modified":"2014-09-03T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:30:08","slug":"harper-airborne-en-route-to-london-and-wales-for-nato-summit-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/03\/harper-airborne-en-route-to-london-and-wales-for-nato-summit-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper airborne en route to London and Wales for NATO summit meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19808\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Stephen-Harper-in-Germany-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19808\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Stephen-Harper-in-Germany-2.jpg\" alt=\"Canada PM Stephen Harper. Photo courtesy of Harper's official Facebook page.\" width=\"960\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Stephen-Harper-in-Germany-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Stephen-Harper-in-Germany-2-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada PM Stephen Harper. Photo courtesy of Harper&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper is airborne on his way to a NATO summit in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The summit agenda includes a proposal to organize a new military force to give the alliance a fast-reaction capability.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will also look at the continuing crisis in Ukraine and the end of the NATO mission in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes as the U.S. and Britain lean on Canada to increase defence spending to meet NATO&#8217;s benchmark of two per cent of gross domestic product.<\/p>\n<p>That could be a problem for Harper as his government moves to balance the budget before the scheduled election next year.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting runs Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper is airborne on his way to a NATO summit in Wales. The summit agenda &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}