{"id":237142,"date":"2021-10-18T07:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=237142"},"modified":"2021-10-18T07:47:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:47:35","slug":"former-sec-of-state-colin-powell-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=237142","title":{"rendered":"Former Sec. of State, Colin Powell Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-237143\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Powell-Colin-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Powell-Colin-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Powell-Colin-132x175.jpg 132w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Powell-Colin.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/>WASHIINGTON (AP) \u2014 Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications, his family said Monday. In an announcement on social media, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. Powell was the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state. But his reputation also suffered a painful setback when, in 2003, Powell went before the U.N. Security Council and made the case for U.S. war against Iraq. He cited faulty information claiming Saddam Hussein had secretly stashed away weapons of mass destruction. Iraq\u2019s claims that it had not represented \u201ca web of lies,\u201d he told the world body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHIINGTON (AP) \u2014 Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications, his family said Monday. In an announcement on social media, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. Powell was the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237142","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=237142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237148,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237142\/revisions\/237148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}