{"id":219439,"date":"2021-02-17T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=219439"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:41:45","slug":"conservative-radio-talk-show-host-rush-limbaugh-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=219439","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Radio Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-191096\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LimbaughRush-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LimbaughRush-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LimbaughRush-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LimbaughRush.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Rush Limbaugh, the\u00a0monumentally influential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media icon<\/a> who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Party,<\/a>\u00a0died Wednesday Feb. 17, 2021 at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Limbaugh&#8217;s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show.<\/p>\n<p>The radio icon learned he had Stage IV lung cancer in January 2020 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump at the State of the Union address days later. First lady Melania Trump then presented America\u2019s highest civilian honor to Limbaugh in an emotional moment on the heels of his devastating cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush Limbaugh, the\u00a0monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party,\u00a0died Wednesday Feb. 17, 2021 at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced. Limbaugh&#8217;s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":191095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219439","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=219439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219451,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219439\/revisions\/219451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}