{"id":87247,"date":"2017-01-30T19:16:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T00:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87247"},"modified":"2017-01-30T19:16:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T00:16:48","slug":"hundreds-in-halifax-gather-for-vigil-to-mourn-quebec-shooting-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/30\/hundreds-in-halifax-gather-for-vigil-to-mourn-quebec-shooting-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds in Halifax gather for vigil to mourn Quebec shooting victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX \u2013Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil Monday evening on Halifax&#8217;s Grand Parade in front of city hall to mourn those killed in a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd observed a moment of silence before a lone trumpeter softly played \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d as a tribute.<\/p>\n<p>Imam Syed Shah told the crowd the killings during prayer at the mosque Sunday were a \u201ccowardly act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Halifax Mayor Mike Savage told the crowd that he was \u201cheartbroken\u201d by the senseless act of violence.<\/p>\n<p>He said the vigil is a chance to show the importance of having a community with \u201cdifferent and diverse points of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vigils are expected Monday in other centres in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX \u2013Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil Monday evening on Halifax&#8217;s Grand Parade in front of city hall to mourn &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[1682,14407,14424],"class_list":["post-87247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-halifax","tag-mosque-attack","tag-vigil","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87247","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=87247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}