{"id":305098,"date":"2017-04-25T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T08:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-to-receive-400k-for-first-paid-speech-report\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T08:42:38","slug":"obama-to-receive-400k-for-first-paid-speech-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-to-receive-400k-for-first-paid-speech-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to receive $400k for first paid speech: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Barack Obama will get $400,000 for one of his first paid speeches, a new report claims, overshadowing the former US president\u2019s much-publicized return to the public eye.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama would be paid the hefty sum for addressing a healthcare conference in September, Fox News reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cantor Fitzgerald, a New York City-based financial services firm that organizes the gathering, asked Obama to deliver the keynote speech particularly because of his signature healthcare law the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s successor Donald Trump has pledged to \u201cease the burden of Obamacare&#8221; which covers some 20 million Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The news of Obama\u2019s highly-paid speech emerged shortly after he broke his silence more than three months after Trump\u2019s inauguration in late January by giving a &#8220;free&#8221; speech at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170425\/f2e35058-c991-4807-b002-5b5c9503aa15.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Former US President Barack Obama smiles as he spends his free time kite surfing off the British Virgin Islands in the&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/25\/519390\/US-Obama-Clinton-Trump-paid-speech\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama will get $400,000 for one of his first paid speeches, a new report claims, overshadowing the former US president\u2019s much-publicized return to the public eye. Obama would be paid the hefty sum for addressing a healthcare conference in September, Fox News reported Monday. Cantor Fitzgerald, a New York City-based financial services firm that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-305098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}