{"id":5383,"date":"2024-11-21T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/21\/john-prescott-former-uk-deputy-prime-minister-has-died-his-family-says\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:00:55","slug":"john-prescott-former-uk-deputy-prime-minister-has-died-his-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/21\/john-prescott-former-uk-deputy-prime-minister-has-died-his-family-says\/","title":{"rendered":"John Prescott, former UK deputy prime minister, has died, his family says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            John Prescott, a former British deputy prime minister in Tony Blair\u2019s Labour government, has died, his family said on Thursday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Prescott, 86, died following a battle with Alzheimer\u2019s, his family said in a post on X.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            He served as deputy prime minister from 1997 to 2007.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Prescott was one of Blair\u2019s most colourful ministers and was known as a plain-speaking politician who bridged the divide between the traditional left-wing and the modernizers in the Labour Party.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Prescott, a former British deputy prime minister in Tony Blair\u2019s Labour government, has died, his family said on Thursday. Prescott, 86, died following a battle with Alzheimer\u2019s, his family said in a post on X. He served as deputy prime minister from 1997 to 2007. Prescott was one of Blair\u2019s most colourful ministers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}