{"id":4556,"date":"2025-06-29T22:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T22:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2025-06-29T22:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T22:07:49","slug":"country-music-star-passes-away-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/?p=4556","title":{"rendered":"Country Music Star Passes Away At 79"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinky Friedman, the legendary country singer-songwriter known for his unique blend of humor and outspokenness, has died at the age of 79. Friedman, who passed away on Wednesday at his home in Texas, was a beloved figure in the music and literary worlds. His career spanned several decades, during which he became a close friend and collaborator of Willie Nelson. The cause of death was Parkinson\u2019s disease, according to Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow at his beloved Echo Hill surrounded by family &amp; friends,\u201d a statement read on X on Thursday. \u201cKinkster endured tremendous pain &amp; unthinkable loss in recent years but he never lost his fighting spirit and quick wit. Kinky will live on as his books are read and his songs are sung.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinky Friedman, the legendary country singer-songwriter known for his unique blend of humor and outspokenness, has died at the age of 79. Friedman, who passed away on&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}