{"id":1057,"date":"2021-01-23T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:25:42","slug":"larry-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Larry King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e98a8dec200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Larry king\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20263e98a8dec200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e98a8dec200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Larry king\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/larry-king-r-i-p\/\">Bill Donohue of the Catholic League disagrees with me that Larry King was a softball interviewer<\/a>. <em>He would know much better than I since he was interviewed many times by King and knew him well. And I hardly ever watched Larry King.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pretty famous CNN host &#8211; his show ran 25 years. 87 years old and had COVID. I don&#39;t think I watched his show more than a handful of times. Well known for his T ball questions &#8211; &quot;President Clinton&#8230; how&#39;s your family?&quot; &quot;President Bush, how is your new boat?&quot; Also famous for being married seven (or was it eight?) times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/broadcast-legend-larry-king-dies-at-87\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=22738742\">While a cause of death was not given, King was hospitalized with the virus in late December. He had faced a number of health issues over the years, including prostate cancer, type-two diabetes, multiple heart attacks, a lung cancer diagnosis, and a stroke.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Bill Donohue of the Catholic League disagrees with me that Larry King was a softball interviewer. He would know much better than I since he was interviewed many times by King and knew him well. And I hardly ever watched Larry King. Pretty famous CNN host &#8211; his show ran 25 years. 87 years [&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-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","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=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}