{"id":1348,"date":"2020-03-24T23:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T03:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2020-03-24T23:45:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T03:45:40","slug":"choctaw-nation-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/03\/24\/choctaw-nation-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Choctaw Nation (Oklahoma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dMe_V2qxWcc\">video message<\/a> on March 24, 2020, Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton announced the closure of the tribe&#8217;s administrative offices to the public. The decision comes after the tribe already closed its casinos, wellness centers, community centers and Head Start sites in Oklahoma.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;ll reopen buildings and programs as soon as we can,&#8221; Batton said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive  embed-responsive-16by9\"><div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\"   title=\"Chief Batton Special Alert 3\/24\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMe_V2qxWcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video message on March 24, 2020, Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton announced the closure of the tribe&#8217;s administrative offices to the public. The decision comes after the tribe already closed its casinos, wellness centers, community centers and Head Start sites in Oklahoma. &#8220;We&#8217;ll reopen buildings and programs as soon as we can,&#8221; Batton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[184,19],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tribes","tag-choctaw","tag-oklahoma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}