{"id":5532,"date":"2019-04-16T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2019-04-16T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:22:28","slug":"hal-ketchem-diagnosed-with-alzheimers-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/hal-ketchem-diagnosed-with-alzheimers-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hal Ketchem Diagnosed With Alzheimer&#8217;s &amp; Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rFRkH_3ZmbU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Hal Ketchum has been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia and has announced his retirement. Ketchum&#8217;s wife, Andrea, posted the news on Facebook on Sunday, April 14th writing,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI know everyone is wondering why there are no future tour dates, and speculations as to the reason. Our family would like to share the cause for this. Unfortunately, Hal is suffering from Alzheimer\u2019s\/ Dementia. He has been battling this for some time now, but because of his love for his fans, he continued performing as long as it was possible. Dementia is an exhausting and confusing illness and now it\u2019s time for Hal to stay home with loved ones . . .&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full post is below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/es_LA\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hal.ketchum.7\/photos\/a.163322857185701\/1161371557380821\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hal.ketchum.7\/photos\/a.163322857185701\/1161371557380821\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Dear friends and fans of Hal, this is Andrea, Hal&#039;s wife.   I know everyone is wondering why there are no future tour&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Publicado por <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hal.ketchum.7\/\">Hal Ketchum<\/a> en&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hal.ketchum.7\/photos\/a.163322857185701\/1161371557380821\/?type=3\">Domingo, 14 de abril de 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ketchum is best known for his singles like \u201cSmall Town Saturday Night,\u201d \u201cHearts Are Gonna Roll,\u201d \u201cFive O\u2019Clock World\u201d and \u201cSure Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hal Ketchum has been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia and has announced his retirement.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[827,828,825,829,826],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-alzheimers","tag-dementia","tag-hal-ketchum","tag-hearts-are-gonna-roll","tag-small-town-saturday-night"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 15:26:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/hal-ketchem-diagnosed-with-alzheimers-dementia\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}