{"id":40057,"date":"2015-01-27T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40057"},"modified":"2015-01-27T23:53:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:53:46","slug":"obama-leads-us-dignitaries-paying-respects-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/27\/obama-leads-us-dignitaries-paying-respects-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama leads US dignitaries paying respects in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16498\" style=\"width: 738px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Barack-Obama-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16498\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Barack-Obama-1.png\" alt=\"US President Barack Obama. Photo courtesy of Obama's official Facebook page.\" width=\"738\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Barack-Obama-1.png 738w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Barack-Obama-1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Barack Obama. Photo courtesy of Obama&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; President Barack Obama is leading a high-level delegation of current and former American officials to Saudi Arabia Tuesday to pay respects following King Abdullah&#8217;s death and to take measure of the kingdom&#8217;s new monarch.<\/p>\n<p>Obama cut short the final day of his trip to India to make the four-hour stop in Riyadh. He will hold his first formal meeting with new King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, and then attend a dinner with other Saudi officials at the Erga Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State John Kerry is joining Obama in Riyadh, along with former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and James Baker III. Sen. John McCain, the Arizona republican who is a frequent critic of Obama&#8217;s foreign policy in the Middle East, is also part of the delegation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; President Barack Obama is leading a high-level delegation of current and former American officials to Saudi &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[483,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","category-news-w","mauthors-julie-pace","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40057","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}