{"id":119881,"date":"2015-05-28T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=119881"},"modified":"2015-05-28T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:28:15","slug":"theodosia-okohs-state-burial-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=119881","title":{"rendered":"Theodosia Okoh&#8217;s state burial today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state will today [Thursday] bid farewell to the late designer of the Ghana national flag, Theodosia Salome Okoh who <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/19\/theodosia-okoh-dies-at-age-92\/#sthash.YDmdn2mw.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">passed on<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in April at age 92.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;VgAIMz9cT1RqNkGeAWINWe8vAd47rJhF&#8221;]The state funeral will take place at the forecourt of the State House and she will later be buried at the Osu Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from her family, the funeral is expected to be attended by government officials, Members of Parliament (MPs), members of the diplomatic corps, members of the sports fraternity, among others.<\/p>\n<p>A thanks-giving service is also scheduled to take place on Sunday at the Ridge Church in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Okoh was the first female Chair person of the Ghana Hockey Association; and the Accra hockey pitch has been named after her due to her massive contribution to the development of the sport in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Until her death, she was a patron of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state will today [Thursday] bid farewell to the late designer of the Ghana national flag, Theodosia Salome Okoh who passed on in April at age 92. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;VgAIMz9cT1RqNkGeAWINWe8vAd47rJhF&#8221;]The state funeral will take place at the forecourt of the State House and she will later be buried at the Osu Cemetery. Apart from her family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":119882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-119881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}