{"id":263171,"date":"2019-01-29T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiTGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wMS8yOC9mb3JtZXItZXRoaW9waWFuLWhvdXNlLW9mLXNwZWFrZXItZGllcy1hdC02My_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2019-02-05T03:57:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:57:18","slug":"former-ethiopian-speaker-of-house-dies-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/263171","title":{"rendered":"Former Ethiopian Speaker of House Dies at 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top Ethiopian diplomat has died after being hospitalized in the United States. Mr. Dawit Yohannes, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, died at the age of 63.<\/p>\n<p>Dawit passed away in a New York hospital where he was undergoing treatment for an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n<p>Dawit, who spent over ten years in Ethiopian politics, became the first speaker of the House of Representatives under the government of the Ethiopian People&#8217;s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).<\/p>\n<p>Dawit is survived by three children. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/01\/28\/former-ethiopian-house-of-speaker-dies-at-63\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawit Yohannes -former Ethiopian House of Speaker &#8211; dies at 63&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comborkena. January 28,2019. Dawit Yohannes, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, passed away at the age of 63, reported Ethiopian state media &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/159700647_7db21214b1_o-e1548780707427.jpg?fit=394%2C359&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-16sH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263279,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263171\/revisions\/263279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}