{"id":161266,"date":"2020-09-20T02:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T00:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/20\/john-turner-former-canadian-prime-minister-and-friend-of-princess-margaret-dies-at-91\/"},"modified":"2020-09-20T02:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T00:49:04","slug":"john-turner-former-canadian-prime-minister-and-friend-of-princess-margaret-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=161266","title":{"rendered":"John Turner, former Canadian prime minister and friend of Princess Margaret, dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dashing lawyer, who lost the top job after just 79 days in 1988, caused a stir when he danced with the British royalJohn Turner, a Liberal party politician who served stints as Canada\u2019s justice and finance ministers before a very brief turn as prime minister, has died at age 91.Marc Kealey, a former aide speaking on behalf of the family, said Turner died peacefully in his sleep at home in Toronto on Friday night. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/20\/john-turner-former-canadian-prime-minister-and-friend-of-princess-margaret-dies-at-91\" target=\"_blank\">John Turner, former Canadian prime minister and friend of Princess Margaret, dies at 91<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dashing lawyer, who lost the top job after just 79 days in 1988, caused a stir when he danced with the British royalJohn Turner, a Liberal party politician who served stints as Canada\u2019s justice and finance ministers before a very brief turn as prime minister, has died at age [&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-161266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161266","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=161266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}