{"id":22296,"date":"2020-09-01T08:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T23:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/01\/india-mourns-former-president-pranab-mukherjee-amid-covid-crisis"},"modified":"2020-09-01T08:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T23:47:19","slug":"india-mourns-former-president-pranab-mukherjee-amid-covid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22296","title":{"rendered":"India mourns former president Pranab Mukherjee amid Covid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Prime minister Narendra Modi praises \u2018wise counsel\u2019 of Congress party figure who tested positive for coronavirus during surgery for blood clot<\/p>\n<p>Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee, a senior leader of the Congress party who served in multiple cabinets during five decades in politics, has died. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>Mukherjee had emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain on 10 August at Delhi\u2019s Army Hospital Research and Referral after a fall. The hospital said he tested positive for Covid-19 after the surgery and his condition was critical.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/01\/india-mourns-former-president-pranab-mukherjee-amid-covid-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Prime minister Narendra Modi praises \u2018wise counsel\u2019 of Congress party figure who tested positive for coronavirus during surgery for blood clotFormer Indian president Pranab Mukherjee, a senior leader of the Congress party who served in multiple cabine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22297,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22296\/revisions\/22297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}