{"id":139208,"date":"2018-02-22T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=139208"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:22:09","slug":"billy-graham-to-lie-in-honor-u-s-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=139208","title":{"rendered":"Billy Graham to lie in honor, U.S. Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-139052\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GrahamBilly1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GrahamBilly1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GrahamBilly1-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GrahamBilly1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) \u2014 U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan says the Rev. Billy Graham&#8217;s body will lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda for two days next week.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan says he&#8217;s inviting members of Congress and the public to pay their respects to the man called &#8220;America&#8217;s Pastor&#8221; on Feb. 28 and March 1.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rare honor for a private citizen to lie in honor at the Capitol. According to the U.S. House, civil rights hero Rosa Parks was the last to do so in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Graham died Wednesday in his sleep at his North Carolina home. He was 99.<\/p>\n<p>Graham will lie in repose at his library in Charlotte on Monday and Tuesday. His funeral is March 2 on the grounds of his library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) \u2014 U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan says the Rev. Billy Graham&#8217;s body will lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda for two days next week. Ryan says he&#8217;s inviting members of Congress and the public to pay their respects to the man called &#8220;America&#8217;s Pastor&#8221; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139229,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139208\/revisions\/139229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}