{"id":219259,"date":"2016-06-02T16:24:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=219259"},"modified":"2016-06-02T16:24:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:24:51","slug":"prince-death-singer-died-of-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=219259","title":{"rendered":"Prince death: Singer &#8216;died of overdose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The singer Prince died of an opioid overdose, a US law enforcement official has told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The official, who is close to the investigation, said this was established by tests after the singer&#8217;s death in April at his Minneapolis home.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have already questioned a doctor who saw 57-year-old Prince twice in the weeks before he died.<\/p>\n<p>Prescription painkillers were in the singer&#8217;s possession following his death, officials told US media in May.<\/p>\n<p>A police warrant has also revealed that Dr Michael Schulenberg prescribed medication to the singer on 20 April &#8211; the day before he died.<\/p>\n<p>The warrant does not say what was prescribed or whether Prince took the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer Prince died of an opioid overdose, a US law enforcement official has told the Associated Press. The official, who is close to the investigation, said this was established by tests after the singer&#8217;s death in April at his Minneapolis home. Detectives have already questioned a doctor who saw 57-year-old Prince twice in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":210065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}