{"id":44880,"date":"2014-09-04T19:24:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=44880"},"modified":"2014-09-04T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T19:24:36","slug":"comedian-joan-rivers-dies-aged-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=44880","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Joan Rivers dies aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Comedian and TV host Joan Rivers has died, her daughter has said.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, 81, had been on life support in Mount Sinai Hospital since having a cardiac arrest in New York last week.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, her daughter Melissa said she died surrounded by family and friends, and she thanked hospital staff for their &#8220;amazing care&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian stopped breathing during a procedure on her vocal chords at an outpatient clinic last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mother&#8217;s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Credit:BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and TV host Joan Rivers has died, her daughter has said. Rivers, 81, had been on life support in Mount Sinai Hospital since having a cardiac arrest in New York last week. In a statement, her daughter Melissa said she died surrounded by family and friends, and she thanked hospital staff for their &#8220;amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":42718,"comment_status":"closed","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":[32],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-44880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44880","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=44880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}