{"id":71491,"date":"2015-05-01T14:35:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71491"},"modified":"2015-05-02T21:20:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T02:20:31","slug":"mda-telethon-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71491","title":{"rendered":"MDA Labor Day telethon tradition is ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2013 The Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, a Labor Day television tradition for decades, is ending. The association says the decision is due to \u201cthe new realities\u201d of TV viewing and charitable giving. Celebrities from Frank Sinatra, John Lennon and Michael Jackson to Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez have performed on the telethon \u2014 hosted for most of its life by Jerry Lewis. It ran 21 and a half hours in 2010, Lewis\u2019 last year as host, and had dwindled to a two-hour show the last two years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/images\/news\/mda-telethon-posts-best-gain-since-2008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2013 The Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, a Labor Day television tradition for decades, is ending. The association says the decision is due to \u201cthe new realities\u201d of TV viewing and charitable giving. Celebrities from Frank Sinatra, John Lennon and Michael Jackson to Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71491","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\/71491","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=71491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71495,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491\/revisions\/71495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}