{"id":150762,"date":"2020-07-03T15:51:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/03\/northern-ireland-deputy-leader-refuses-to-quit-in-funeral-row\/"},"modified":"2020-07-03T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:51:35","slug":"northern-ireland-deputy-leader-refuses-to-quit-in-funeral-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=150762","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland deputy leader refuses to quit in  funeral row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy first minister Michelle O\u2019Neill defends decision to attend top IRA man\u2019s memorialCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNorthern Ireland\u2019s deputy first minister, Michelle O\u2019Neill, has defended her decision to attend the funeral of a former leading IRA figure during lockdown.As pressure mounts on the Sinn F\u00e9in vice-president to stand down from the post, she expressed concern to families who lost loved ones during the pandemic and were unable to attend their funerals in large numbers. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/jul\/03\/northern-ireland-deputy-leader-refuses-to-quit-in-funeral-row\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland deputy leader refuses to quit in  funeral row<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy first minister Michelle O\u2019Neill defends decision to attend top IRA man\u2019s memorialCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNorthern Ireland\u2019s deputy first minister, Michelle O\u2019Neill, has defended her decision to attend the funeral of a former leading IRA figure during lockdown.As pressure mounts on the Sinn F\u00e9in vice-president to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}