{"id":136457,"date":"2018-01-12T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136457"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:27:34","slug":"mouseketeer-doreen-tracey-passes-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136457","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mouseketeer&#8221; Doreen Tracey passes, 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-136458\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TraceyDoreen-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TraceyDoreen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TraceyDoreen-131x175.jpg 131w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TraceyDoreen.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Doreen Tracey, a former child star who played one of the original cute-as-a-button Mouseketeers on &#8220;The Mickey Mouse Club&#8221; in the 1950s, has died, according to Disney publicist Howard Green. She was 74.<\/p>\n<p>Tracey died from pneumonia Wednesday at a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California, following a two-year battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Tracey maintained ties to Disney and show business throughout her life, appearing in the film &#8220;Westward Ho the Wagons!&#8221; and touring with the Mouseketeers. She later served as a publicist to musician Frank Zappa and worked at Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Mickey Mouse Club&#8221; proved a sensation with its Oct. 3, 1955, debut. It flourished for two seasons, then was reduced to a half-hour for two more. Tracey stayed for its four-year run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Doreen Tracey, a former child star who played one of the original cute-as-a-button Mouseketeers on &#8220;The Mickey Mouse Club&#8221; in the 1950s, has died, according to Disney publicist Howard Green. She was 74. Tracey died from pneumonia Wednesday at a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136457","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\/136457","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=136457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136460,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136457\/revisions\/136460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}