{"id":9789,"date":"2023-10-09T11:03:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/white-house-slammed-for-hosting-bbq-with-live-band-as-war-rages-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:03:30","slug":"white-house-slammed-for-hosting-bbq-with-live-band-as-war-rages-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/white-house-slammed-for-hosting-bbq-with-live-band-as-war-rages-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"White House slammed for hosting BBQ with live band as war rages in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">President Biden is coming under fire for hosting a barbecue at the White House Sunday afternoon while war rages in Israel and terrorists allegedly hold Americans hostage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u2018While Hamas holds Americans hostage, Joe Biden is enjoying a picnic with a live band,\u2019 Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted, accompanied by a screen shoot of a White House Pool report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pool report, emailed just after 6 p.m. Sunday evening, notes that a reporter could hear a \u2018live band\u2019 in the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In the late afternoon and early evening, a live band could be heard coming from the area near the Rose Garden. Your pooler asked why a band was playing. From the White House: The President and First Lady are hosting a BBQ for White House Executive Residence Staff and their families,\u2019 the pool reporter wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A handful of other conservatives joined Hawley in criticizing the White House for the event on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The BBQ comes after the Israeli government officially declared war on Sunday, the first time the nation has made such a declaration since the Yom Kippur War of 1973, after terrorist organization Hamas launched surprise attacks on the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least 700 people in Israel have died since the attacks began on Saturday morning, and at least another 2,000 people have been injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has reportedly taken a large amount of hostages amid the attacks, including women and children, while U.S. officials are working to confirm if American citizens have been taken hostage or killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to the White House Sunday evening for additional comment on the barbecue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">&lt;!\u2013&gt;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p>\u2013&gt;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is coming under fire for hosting a barbecue at the White House Sunday afternoon while war rages in Israel and terrorists allegedly hold Americans hostage.\u00a0 \u2018While Hamas holds Americans hostage, Joe Biden is enjoying a picnic with a live band,\u2019 Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted, accompanied by a screen shoot of a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}