{"id":2519,"date":"2012-08-20T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:01:06","slug":"humorist-phyllis-diller-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Humorist Phyllis Diller Dies At 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dillar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2522\" title=\"Dillar\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dillar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist<br \/>\nwho aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, has died at age 95<br \/>\nin Los Angeles.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her longtime manager, Milton Suchin, says Diller died Monday<br \/>\nmorning in her sleep.<\/p>\n<p>She had survived a near-fatal heart attack in 1999.<br \/>\nDiller was a staple of nightclubs and television from the 1950s<br \/>\nuntil her retirement in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>She was famous for her distinctive laugh and portrayed herself as a bizarre housewife with a husband named &#8220;Fang.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She would tell audiences that &#8220;I bury a lot of my ironing in<br \/>\nthe back yard.&#8221;<br \/>\nDiller was nearly 40 when she began performing, with five<br \/>\nchildren and a successful career as an advertising copywriter.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, women were a rarity in the world of stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, has died at age 95 in Los Angeles. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her longtime manager, Milton Suchin, says Diller died Monday morning in her sleep. She had survived a near-fatal heart attack in 1999. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}