{"id":3945,"date":"2025-09-21T19:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/21\/tens-of-thousands-attend-memorial-service-for-conservative-leader-charlie-kirk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:32:46","slug":"tens-of-thousands-attend-memorial-service-for-conservative-leader-charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/21\/tens-of-thousands-attend-memorial-service-for-conservative-leader-charlie-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands attend memorial service for conservative leader Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive crowd gathered Sunday in Arizona for the memorial service of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The memorial mixed music, prayer and calls to action, with Trump, Vance and many members of the administration among the speakers. For more on Kirk\u2019s legacy, Ali Rogin speaks with journalist Kyle Spencer, author of \u201cRaising Them Right,\u201d a book about the conservative youth movement.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive crowd gathered Sunday in Arizona for the memorial service of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The memorial mixed music, prayer and calls to action, with Trump, Vance and many members of the administration among the speakers. For more on Kirk\u2019s legacy, Ali Rogin speaks with journalist Kyle Spencer, author of \u201cRaising Them Right,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}