{"id":9666,"date":"2018-08-27T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2018-08-27T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T17:03:20","slug":"arizona-governor-will-name-mccains-replacement-after-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=9666","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Governor will name McCain&#8217;s replacement after funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Gov. Doug Ducey will wait to name a successor to John McCain until after the late senator has been buried at the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Maryland, an aide to the governor told\u00a0<em>The Arizona Republic<\/em>\u00a0on Saturday<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">&#8220;Out of respect for the life and legacy of Senator John McCain and his family, Governor Ducey will not be making any announcements about an appointment until after the Senator is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/arizona\/2018\/05\/10\/john-mccain-arizona-senator-wants-buried-near-his-navy-pal-chuck-larson\/588639002\/\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">\u00a0laid to rest<\/a>,&#8221; Ducey&#8217;s senior adviser Daniel Ruiz II said in a\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">&#8220;Now is a time for remembering and honoring a consequential life well lived.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/arizona\/2018\/08\/25\/john-mccain-dead-arizona-senator-republican-maverick-obituary\/538330001\/\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">McCain\u00a0died Saturday at his family&#8217;s home near Sedona<\/a>\u00a0after a 13-month battle with brain cancer. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The timing of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/arizona\/2018\/08\/25\/john-mccain-funeral-schedule-how-honor-senator\/1086728002\/\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">McCain&#8217;s burial is unknown<\/a>. His body is expected to lay in state in both Phoenix and Washington, D.C. Services in both cities are also expected, but details have not been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Doug Ducey will wait to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}