{"id":204439,"date":"2025-08-11T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-brawl-over-grigsbys-burial\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:10:53","slug":"liberia-brawl-over-grigsbys-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-brawl-over-grigsbys-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Brawl Over Grigsby&#8217;s Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Monrovia \u2014 <em>-Widow wants husband buried in U.S. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>A seeming uncertainty looms here on the pending burial place of fallen Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Sylvester M. Grigsby, as the Government of Liberia, family members, and friends mourn his passing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">A simmering disagreement or tussle is emerging between the Liberian government and family members of deceased Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Mr. Sylvester M. Grigsby, over where he should be buried. The NEW DAWN has&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508110012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 -Widow wants husband buried in U.S. A seeming uncertainty looms here on the pending burial place of fallen Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Sylvester M. Grigsby, as the Government of Liberia, family members, and friends mourn his passing. A simmering disagreement or tussle is emerging between the Liberian government and family members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,18388,10033,52078,4712,1107,257,254],"class_list":["post-204439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brawl","tag-burial","tag-grigsbys","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}