{"id":22928,"date":"2021-10-18T19:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=22928"},"modified":"2021-10-18T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:28:32","slug":"former-us-secretary-of-state-colin-powell-84-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/22928","title":{"rendered":"Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell-84 dies of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C.,<\/p>\n<p>The first black US secretary of state and top military officer, Colin Powell, died on Monday at the age of 84 from COVID-19 complications, according to his family statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,&#8221; Powell&#8217;s family posted on their Facebook page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a four-star Army general, he was chairman of the military&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H W Bush during the 1991 Gulf War in which US-led forces expelled Iraqi forces from neighboring Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>Powell, a moderate Republican and a pragmatist, later served as secretary of state under President George W Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C., The first black US secretary of state and top military officer, Colin Powell, died on Monday at the age of 84 from COVID-19 complications, according to his family statement. &#8220;He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22930,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions\/22930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}