{"id":95174,"date":"2016-02-17T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95174"},"modified":"2016-02-18T17:18:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T23:18:26","slug":"scalia-funeral-sat-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95174","title":{"rendered":"Justice Scalia funeral, Sat Feb 20, Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ScaliaAntonin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-95197 alignleft\" alt=\"ScaliaAntonin\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ScaliaAntonin-300x202.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ScaliaAntonin-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ScaliaAntonin-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ScaliaAntonin.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>The late Justice Antonin Scalia will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Friday. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb 20, \u00a0at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., according to sources close to the Scalia family.<\/p>\n<p>In a tradition that dates back to 1873, Scalia&#8217;s Supreme Court chair and bench\u00a0are draped with black wool crepe. The court has also placed a black drapery over the courtroom doors.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will pay their respects Friday at the Supreme Court, but will not attend Saturday\u2019s funeral. Vice President Joe Biden, a Catholic, will attend the funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Justice Antonin Scalia will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Friday. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb 20, \u00a0at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., according to sources close to the Scalia family. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95174","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\/95174","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=95174"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95280,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95174\/revisions\/95280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}