{"id":1044,"date":"2021-02-17T14:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:41:12","slug":"rush-limbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdebe2726200c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rush limbaugh\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdebe2726200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdebe2726200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Rush limbaugh\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An icon. Paved the way for conservative media. Announced lung cancer last February and that he was terminally ill this past December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/17\/rush-limbaugh-conservative-radio-host-dead-at-70\/\">Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio host, dead at 70 <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Limbaugh\u2019s death at age 70 was announced Wednesday on his influential conservative radio program, by his wife, Kathryn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Limbaugh announced last February that he was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI know that I am most certainly not the Limbaugh that you tuned in to listen to today. I, like you, very much wish Rush was behind this golden microphone right now, welcoming you to another exceptional three hours of broadcasting,\u201d his wife told listeners in a surprise noon announcement on his radio show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cFor over 32 years, Rush has cherished you, loyal audience, and always looked forward to every single show. It is with profound sadness I must share with you directly that our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband, passed away this morning due to complications from lung cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Kathryn Limbaugh said that \u201cas so many of you know, losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An icon. Paved the way for conservative media. Announced lung cancer last February and that he was terminally ill this past December. Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio host, dead at 70 Limbaugh\u2019s death at age 70 was announced Wednesday on his influential conservative radio program, by his wife, Kathryn. Limbaugh announced last February that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}