{"id":26602,"date":"2018-12-23T03:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T03:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26602"},"modified":"2018-12-23T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T03:22:06","slug":"ex-uk-liberal-democrat-leader-paddy-ashdown-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26602","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UK Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of Britain&#8217;s Liberal Democrats and former <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/01\/serbia.hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations high representative for Bosnia<\/a>, died Saturday evening after struggling with a short illness, according to a tweet from the Liberal Democrats&#8217; verified Twitter account. He was 77.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;This is a hugely sad day for the Liberal Democrats and for the very many people across political and public life who had immense affection and respect for Paddy,&#8221; said Vince Cable, current leader of the party. &#8220;He took up unpopular causes where he was respected for his convictions, in particular promoting the rights of the citizens of Hong Kong, and &#8212; later &#8212; military intervention in Kosovo.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">British Prime Minister Theresa May said he served his nation with great distinction.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of Britain&#8217;s Liberal Democrats and former United Nations high representative for Bosnia, died Saturday evening after struggling with a short illness, according to a tweet from the Liberal Democrats&#8217; verified Twitter account. He was 77.&#8221;This is a hugely sad day for the Liberal Democrats and for the very many people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}