{"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\/2014\/09\/comedian-joan-rivers-dies-aged-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Joan Rivers dies aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"
Comedian and TV host Joan Rivers has died, her daughter has said.<\/p>\n
Rivers, 81, had been on life support in Mount Sinai Hospital since having a cardiac arrest in New York last week.<\/p>\n
In a statement, her daughter Melissa said she died surrounded by family and friends, and she thanked hospital staff for their “amazing care”.<\/p>\n
The comedian stopped breathing during a procedure on her vocal chords at an outpatient clinic last Thursday.<\/p>\n
“My mother’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.”<\/p>\n
Credit:BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 “amazing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":42718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[6],"yoast_head":"\n