{"id":403238,"date":"2018-02-21T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403238"},"modified":"2018-02-21T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:12:50","slug":"us-preacher-billy-graham-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403238","title":{"rendered":"US preacher Billy Graham dies at 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US evangelist Billy Graham &#8211; one of the most influential preachers of the 20th Century &#8211; has died aged 99.<\/p>\n<p>Graham became one of the best-known promoters of Christianity, preaching to audiences worldwide in large arenas, beginning in London in 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Over 60 years, he is estimated to have personally preached to 210 million people.<\/p>\n<p>At first skeptical of the civil rights movement in the US, he went on to become a supporter in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>He became a committed Christian at the age of 16 after hearing a travelling evangelist and was ordained a minister in 1939.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US evangelist Billy Graham &#8211; one of the most influential preachers of the 20th Century &#8211; has died aged 99. Graham became one of the best-known promoters of Christianity, preaching to audiences worldwide in large arenas, beginning in London in 1954. Over 60 years, he is estimated to have personally preached to 210 million people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":403241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[17265,17264,17263],"class_list":["post-403238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-american-evangelism","tag-american-preacher","tag-billy-graham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403238","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}