{"id":165912,"date":"2010-01-11T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2010-01-11T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:43:54","slug":"michelle-lang%e2%80%99s-funeral-to-be-held-today-2pm-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/165912","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Lang\u2019s funeral to be held today 2pm in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>From <a title=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Michelle+Lang+funeral+held+today\/2428553\/story.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Michelle+Lang+funeral+held+today\/2428553\/story.html\" >Calgary Herald<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 A funeral service for Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang, killed late last year while on assignment in Afghanistan, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Lang, 34, was killed on Dec. 30 along with four Canadian soldiers when the vehicle they were in struck a makeshift bomb buried under a muddy road south of Kandahar City. A reporter with the Calgary Herald, Lang was in Afghanistan working for Canwest News Service, and was on her first patrol with Provincial Reconstruction Team &#8220;outside the wire&#8221; when she died.<\/p>\n<p>Lang was born and raised in Vancouver and her immediate family still lives in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services are also being held Monday in Yarmouth, N.S., for Sgt. Kirk Taylor, 28, who died in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Cpl. Zachery McCormack, 21, Sgt. George Miok, 28 and Pte. Garret William Chidley, 21, also died in the incident.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Posted in Calgary, Canada, Love, people  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8955\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=8955&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Calgary Herald, VANCOUVER \u2014 A funeral service for Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang, killed late last year while on assignment in Afghanistan, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Vancouver. Lang, 34, was killed on Dec. 30 along with four Canadian soldiers when the vehicle they were in struck a makeshift bomb buried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}