{"id":121197,"date":"2025-11-04T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/121197\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:07:07","slug":"former-us-vice-president-dick-cheney-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/121197\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US vice-president Dick Cheney dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US vice-president Dick Cheney has died aged 84.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, his family said he died last night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>They described him as a &#8220;great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cheney served as the 46th vice president of the US from 2001 to 2009 under President George W Bush.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"George W. Bush walks with Vice President Dick Cheney along the colonnade at the White House in 2003 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/00236c2f-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US vice-president Dick Cheney has died aged 84. In a statement, his family said he died last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-121197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}