{"id":167716,"date":"2010-01-11T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2010-01-11T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T03:58:07","slug":"calgary-herald-journalist-michelle-lang-remembered-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167716","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Herald journalist Michelle Lang remembered in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>From <a title=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Michelle+Lang+remembered+Vancouver+funeral+service\/2430160\/story.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Michelle+Lang+remembered+Vancouver+funeral+service\/2430160\/story.html\" >Calgary Herald<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The father of Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang told over 400 mourners at her funeral service in Vancouver today that he hopes peace will returns to Afghanistan so that the death of his daughter and Canadian soldiers will not have been in vain.<\/p>\n<p>Art Lang, who lives in Vancouver, said that his daughter &#8212; &#8220;our baby, our shining star&#8221; &#8212; had long been fascinated by Afghanistan because of photographs he had brought back from that country during a trip there in 1972 when the country was relatively peaceful. Art Lang said that Michelle Lang wanted to tell Canadians what was happening to the Canadian soldiers and the civilians in that country.<\/p>\n<p>The grieving father added that he hoped that stability would eventually return to Afghanistan so that Canada&#8217;s mission there is &#8220;not a futile effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Video+Michelle+Lang+funeral\/2430160\/story.html?tab=VID\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Video+Michelle+Lang+funeral\/2430160\/story.html?tab=VID\" >Calgary Herald Video: Michelle Lang Funeral<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/01\/11\/michelle-lang-funeral.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/01\/11\/michelle-lang-funeral.html\" >CBC report with video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*******<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye Michelle.<\/p>\n<p>Posted in Calgary, Canada, Love, people  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8977\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=8977&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Calgary Herald, The father of Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang told over 400 mourners at her funeral service in Vancouver today that he hopes peace will returns to Afghanistan so that the death of his daughter and Canadian soldiers will not have been in vain. Art Lang, who lives in Vancouver, said that his [&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-167716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167716","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=167716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}