{"id":240372,"date":"2021-12-05T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=240372"},"modified":"2021-12-05T21:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:50:52","slug":"former-senator-presidential-candidate-bob-dole-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=240372","title":{"rendered":"Former Senator, Presidential Candidate Bob Dole Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-240373\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dole-Bob-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dole-Bob-300x245.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dole-Bob-214x175.jpg 214w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dole-Bob.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Elizabeth Dole has posted on social media that her husband, Republican political icon Bob Dole, has died at age 98. Dole overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans. Dole announced in February 2021 that he\u2019d been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. During his 36-year career on Capitol Hill, Dole became one of the most influential legislators and party leaders in the Senate, combining a talent for compromise with a caustic wit, which he often turned on himself but didn\u2019t hesitate to turn on others, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Elizabeth Dole has posted on social media that her husband, Republican political icon Bob Dole, has died at age 98. Dole overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240372","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=240372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240422,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240372\/revisions\/240422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}