{"id":31964,"date":"2018-08-26T18:19:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31964"},"modified":"2018-08-28T01:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T01:12:50","slug":"sen-mccain-will-lie-in-repose-where-he-belongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31964","title":{"rendered":"Sen. McCain will lie in state where he belongs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>John McCain will rank as one of the U.S. Senate&#8217;s greatest men. Thus, it is wholly appropriate that he lie in state under the Capitol Rotunda while a nation he served with such distinction pays tribute to him.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Republican died Saturday of brain cancer. He declared his intention only a day earlier that he would no longer receive treatment for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>There will be plenty of tributes pouring in to honor this former Vietnam War prisoner, naval aviator and titan of Congress, where he served in both the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>I remain deeply saddened that his voice has been stilled forever.<\/p>\n<p>However, I also am proud that he will lie in state in the place where he served with honor for more than three decades.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain will rank as one of the U.S. Senate&#8217;s greatest men. Thus, it is wholly appropriate that he lie in state under the Capitol Rotunda while a nation he served with such distinction pays tribute to him. The Arizona Republican died Saturday of brain cancer. He declared his intention only a day earlier that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sen. McCain will lie in state where he belongs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[849,1112,2546],"class_list":["post-31964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-john-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31979,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions\/31979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}