{"id":177257,"date":"2018-08-17T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=177257"},"modified":"2018-08-17T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T07:50:08","slug":"indians-pay-homage-former-pm-vajpayee-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/17\/indians-pay-homage-former-pm-vajpayee-cremation\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians pay homage to former PM Vajpayee before cremation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_177259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177259\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee_2002-06-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177259\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee_2002-06-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee_2002-06-12.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee_2002-06-12-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vajpayee, 93, died on Thursday in a New Delhi hospital where he was being treated for a kidney infection and chest congestion. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=36389547\">(File photo by Helene C. Stikkel, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW DELHI &#8211; Thousands of people are paying homage to India&#8217;s former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as his body is taken to his Hindu nationalist party&#8217;s headquarters before cremation on the banks of the Yamuna River.<\/p>\n<p>Vajpayee, 93, died on Thursday in a New Delhi hospital where he was being treated for a kidney infection and chest congestion.<\/p>\n<p>Amid chants of \u201cLong Live Vajpayee&#8221; by his admirers, Vajpayee&#8217;s body was taken in a gun carriage from his home to the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Schools and colleges are closed in the Indian capital with the government announcing seven-day mourning for Vajpayee.<\/p>\n<p>He served three times as India&#8217;s prime minister; for 13 days in 1996, for 13 months from 1998 to 1999, and then from 1999 to 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI &#8211; Thousands of people are paying homage to India&#8217;s former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as his body &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":177259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}