{"id":6224,"date":"2018-12-04T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T06:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=6224"},"modified":"2018-12-04T10:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T06:58:35","slug":"donald-trump-pays-respects-to-george-hw-bush-at-washington-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/12\/04\/donald-trump-pays-respects-to-george-hw-bush-at-washington-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump pays respects to George HW Bush at Washington memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sdc-news-story-article__intro\"><strong>Donald Trump has visited Capitol Hill in Washington to pay his respects to former president George HW Bush.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-news-story-article__body\">\n<p>He and wife Melania made a brief stop to salute the 41st president, whose body was brought to the capital in a flag-draped casket on Monday after being sent from Texas with a 21-gun salute.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have gathered to pay their respects ahead of his funeral on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bush&#8217;s son, the younger former president George Bush, stood with his hand on his heart as his father&#8217;s casket was carried up the steps of Capitol, having travelled on the flight from Houston with his wife Laura and other family members.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of mourners had flocked to Bush&#8217;s presidential library on the campus of Texas A&amp;M university, where they paid respects at a candlelit vigil at a nearby pond or contributing to growing flower memorials in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>His ceremony, overseen by reverend Patrick J Conroy, was attended by leading Republicans such as House Speaker Paul Ryan, who spoke in praise of Mr Bush.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Skynews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has visited Capitol Hill in Washington to pay his respects to former president George HW Bush. He and wife Melania made a brief stop to salute the 41st president, whose body was brought to the capital in a flag-draped casket on Monday after being sent from Texas with a 21-gun salute. Americans have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions\/6226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}