{"id":18164,"date":"2024-11-30T18:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/alex-salmond-remembered-at-st-giles-memorial\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:03:51","slug":"alex-salmond-remembered-at-st-giles-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/alex-salmond-remembered-at-st-giles-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Salmond remembered at St Giles&#8217; memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Former First Minister Alex Salmond has been remembered at a memorial in Edinburgh where he was <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqj05kn4w8yo\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">hailed as a &#8220;political genius&#8221;<!-- --><\/a>.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">High-profile figures including First Minister John Swinney and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown gathered at the city&#8217;s St Giles&#8217; Cathedral.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Salmond, 69, died of a heart attack while attending a conference in North Macedonia on 12 October.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The St Andrew&#8217;s Day service included tributes from political allies and opponents as well as musical performances by Dougie MacLean and The Proclaimers.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Salmond was buried after a private funeral service on 29 October in the village of Strichen in Aberdeenshire, where he had lived for many years with his wife, Moira.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The memorial event was invitation only, with about 500 people attending.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c93q31kyzpyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former First Minister Alex Salmond has been remembered at a memorial in Edinburgh where he was hailed as a &#8220;political genius&#8221;. High-profile figures including First Minister John Swinney and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown gathered at the city&#8217;s St Giles&#8217; Cathedral. Salmond, 69, died of a heart attack while attending a conference in North Macedonia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2254,7158,2102,7071,5333],"class_list":["post-18164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-alex","tag-giles","tag-memorial","tag-remembered","tag-salmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18166,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18164\/revisions\/18166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}