{"id":112477,"date":"2016-12-09T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=112477"},"modified":"2016-12-10T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:51:12","slug":"flags-to-half-staff-honor-john-glenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=112477","title":{"rendered":"Flags to half-staff, Honor John Glenn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54113\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/flaghalfmast-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"flaghalfmast\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/flaghalfmast-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/flaghalfmast-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/flaghalfmast.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014\u00a0 President Barack Obama has ordered that U.S. flags on all public buildings and military posts be flown at half-staff as a &#8220;mark of respect for the memory&#8221; of retired astronaut John Glenn.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn was elevated to hero status in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the earth. He died Thursday at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital at age 95.<\/p>\n<p>Obama ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff until sunset on the day of Glenn&#8217;s internment.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn is scheduled to lie in state in the Ohio Statehouse rotunda from noon to 8 p.m. Friday. A public memorial service will be held Dec. 17 at Ohio State University&#8217;s Mershon Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Burial is being planned for Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn also served as a Marine combat pilot and he represented Ohio in the U.S. senate for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014\u00a0 President Barack Obama has ordered that U.S. flags on all public buildings and military posts be flown at half-staff as a &#8220;mark of respect for the memory&#8221; of retired astronaut John Glenn. Glenn was elevated to hero status in 1962 when he became the first American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112518,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112477\/revisions\/112518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}