{"id":194816,"date":"2020-03-22T08:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T13:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194816"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:05:29","slug":"entertainer-kenny-rogers-passes-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194816","title":{"rendered":"Entertainer Kenny Rogers passes, 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Kenny Rogers, who embodied \u201cThe Gambler\u201d persona and whose musical career spanned jazz, folk, country and pop, has died at<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-194817\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Rogers-Kenny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Rogers-Kenny.jpg 133w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Rogers-Kenny-125x175.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/> 81. A representative says Rogers died at home in Georgia on Friday night. The Houston-born balladeer with a husky voice had hits like \u201cLucille,\u201d \u201cLady\u201d and \u201cIslands in the Stream\u201d with Dolly Parton. He sold tens of millions of records and was the star of TV movies, making him a superstar in the late \u201870s and \u201980s. With his silver beard and folksy charm, the Grammy winner excelled as a musical stylist for more than six decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Kenny Rogers, who embodied \u201cThe Gambler\u201d persona and whose musical career spanned jazz, folk, country and pop, has died at 81. A representative says Rogers died at home in Georgia on Friday night. The Houston-born balladeer with a husky voice had hits like \u201cLucille,\u201d \u201cLady\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csicelebrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194820,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194816\/revisions\/194820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}