{"id":7707,"date":"2019-08-24T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T09:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/24\/india-former-finance-minister-arun-jaitley-dies-aged-66"},"modified":"2019-08-24T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T09:28:14","slug":"indias-former-finance-minister-arun-jaitley-dies-aged-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7707","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s former finance minister Arun Jaitley dies aged 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaitley was a key figure in Modi\u2019s first-term cabinet but did not run for reelection because of poor health<\/p>\n<p>The former Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley, a key member of Narendra Modi\u2019s first-term cabinet, has died in a New Delhi hospital after a prolonged illness. He was 66.<\/p>\n<p>The All India Institute of Medical Sciences announced Jaitley\u2019s death in a statement, but did not give any details. He was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago after he complained of breathlessness and restlessness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/24\/india-former-finance-minister-arun-jaitley-dies-aged-66\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaitley was a key figure in Modi\u2019s first-term cabinet but did not run for reelection because of poor healthThe former Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley, a key member of Narendra Modi\u2019s first-term cabinet, has died in a New Delhi hospital after a pro&#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":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707","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=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}