{"id":236352,"date":"2022-04-25T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-phd-in-my-brother-valerie-biden-owens-on-the-joe-she-knows"},"modified":"2022-04-25T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T06:00:45","slug":"a-phd-in-my-brother-valerie-biden-owens-on-the-joe-she-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-phd-in-my-brother-valerie-biden-owens-on-the-joe-she-knows","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A PhD in my brother&#8217;: Valerie Biden Owens on the Joe she knows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Biden Owens speaks in Nashua, New Hampshire in 2020.Who wouldn&#8217;t want Valerie Biden Owens in their corner? The first sister of the United States gives no inch in defending her big brother. Asked about Joe Biden&#8217;s notorious gaffes, for example, she simply rejects the premise.&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t have gaffes,&#8221; she insists. &#8220;He speaks the truth. Like, hello, surprise, I just said what was true!&#8221;At the end of a carefully crafted speech last month in Warsaw, Poland, the president ad libbed that Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, &#8220;cannot remain in power&#8221;. To the world&#8217;s media it was a howler implying regime change that upended weeks of diplomacy and sent aides scrambling.To Biden Owens, however, it was truth-telling after meeting refugee mothers and children.&#8220;This is a man, you see what you get,&#8221; she says, with recognisable flintiness. &#8220;His wife died. Two of his children died, one by a long death and one by a sudden death. And one almost from addiction. He was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wouldn&#8217;t want Valerie Biden Owens in their corner? The first sister of the United States gives no inch in defending her big brother. Asked about Joe Biden&#8217;s notorious gaffes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}