{"id":23580,"date":"2013-07-24T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=23580"},"modified":"2013-07-24T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:48:26","slug":"george-h-w-bush-shaves-head-in-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=23580","title":{"rendered":"George H.W. Bush Shaves Head In Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bush-bald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23581\" alt=\"bush bald\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bush-bald-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bush-bald-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bush-bald-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bush-bald.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP Jul 24, 2013)\u00a0&#8211; Former President George H.W. Bush has shaved his head to show solidarity for the sick child of a Secret Service agent.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A statement issued by a Bush spokesman Wednesday says the 89-year-old former president acted earlier this week at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. That was after he saw members of his Secret Service detail with newly shaved heads to show support for the 2-year-old son of an agent. The child&#8217;s undergoing treatment for leukemia and is losing his hair as a result.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bush spokesman identified the boy only as Patrick.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 George and Barbara Bush lost their second child, 4-year-old Robin Bush, to leukemia almost 60 years ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The security detail has launched a website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickspals.org\/\">www.patrickspals.org<\/a> , to help with expenses associated with Patrick&#8217;s treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP Jul 24, 2013)\u00a0&#8211; Former President George H.W. Bush has shaved his head to show solidarity for the sick child of a Secret Service agent.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A statement issued by a Bush spokesman Wednesday says the 89-year-old former president acted earlier this week at his summer home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23580","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\/23580","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=23580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23585,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23580\/revisions\/23585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}