{"id":188086,"date":"2019-12-27T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188086"},"modified":"2019-12-27T23:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T05:26:25","slug":"188086","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188086","title":{"rendered":"Shock Jock, Don Imus passes,79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-188087\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ImusDon-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ImusDon.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ImusDon-284x175.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(AP)\u00a0 Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to radio stardom and an abrupt public plunge after a nationally broadcast racial slur, has died. He was 79. Imus survived drug and alcohol woes, a raunchy appearance before President Clinton and several firings during his long career behind the microphone. But he was vilified and eventually fired after describing a women&#8217;s college basketball team as \u201cnappy headed hos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to radio stardom and an abrupt public plunge after a nationally broadcast racial slur, has died. He was 79. Imus survived drug and alcohol woes, a raunchy appearance before President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188086","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\/188086","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=188086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188090,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188086\/revisions\/188090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}