{"id":126647,"date":"2017-08-08T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126647"},"modified":"2017-08-08T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T03:35:07","slug":"glen-campbell-passes-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126647","title":{"rendered":"Singer &#8211; Entertainer Glen Campbell passes at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer who had such hits as &#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221; and spanned country, pop, television and movies, has died. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/87190708?autoplay=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Campbell&#8217;s publicist Sandy Brokaw says the singer died Tuesday morning in Nashville. No cause was immediately given. Campbell announced in June 2011 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and that it was in its early stages at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell was one of the biggest stars of the late 1960s and 1970s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 12 gold albums and 75 chart hits. He co-starred with John Wayne in the 1969 movie &#8220;True Grit&#8221; and had a weekly audience of some 50 million people for the &#8220;Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour&#8221; on CBS from 1969 to 1972.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer who had such hits as &#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221; and spanned country, pop, television and movies, has died. He was 81. Campbell&#8217;s publicist Sandy Brokaw says the singer died Tuesday morning in Nashville. No cause was immediately given. Campbell announced in June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126669,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126647\/revisions\/126669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}