{"id":2084,"date":"2021-10-22T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:41:14","slug":"general-colin-powell-dies-at-84-from-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2021\/10\/22\/general-colin-powell-dies-at-84-from-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"General Colin Powell Dies at 84 from Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colin Powell has died from complications from Covid-19, his family members have confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first Black US secretary of state was 84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGeneral Colin L. Powell,&nbsp;former&nbsp;U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19,\u201d the former General\u2019s family wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,\u201d the family wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They reported that Powell had been fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Powell became the first Black&nbsp;national&nbsp;security adviser during the end of Ronald Reagan\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also counted as the youngest and first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Powell was thrust into the global spotlight after leading the United States to victory during the Gulf War, with many even considering him as a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Powell has died from complications from Covid-19, his family members have confirmed. The first Black US secretary of state was 84. \u201cGeneral Colin L. Powell,&nbsp;former&nbsp;U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19,\u201d the former General\u2019s family wrote on Facebook. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[678,1217,1218],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid","tag-general-colin-powell","tag-president-george-h-w-bush","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}