{"id":20552,"date":"2022-04-13T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/?p=20552"},"modified":"2022-04-13T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:57:03","slug":"rip-gilbert-gottfried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/blogs\/the-daily-scoop\/2022\/04\/rip-gilbert-gottfried\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Gilbert Gottfried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/celebrity\/gilbert-gottfried-iconic-comedian-dies-67-long-illness-rcna24111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gilbert Gottfried, the beloved brash comedian,\u00a0<\/a>died Tuesday from a disease that his publicist identified as a rare genetic muscle disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gottfried, 67, had type II myotonic dystrophy, a kind of muscular dystrophy, said his longtime friend and publicist, Glenn Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It isn&#8217;t clear when Gottfried was diagnosed with the disease, which has no cure or treatment and typically appears when people are in their 20s and 30s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His family said in a statement that he died after a &#8220;long illness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great appearance of his on Hollywood Squares, YOU FOOL!!<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1513975542713888782&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gilbert Gottfried, the beloved brash comedian,\u00a0died Tuesday from a disease that his publicist identified as a rare genetic muscle disorder. Gottfried, 67, had type II myotonic dystrophy, a kind of muscular dystrophy, said his longtime friend and publicist, Glenn Schwartz. It isn&#8217;t clear when Gottfried was diagnosed with the disease, which has no cure or","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":17871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4932],"class_list":["post-20552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-scoop","tag-gilbert-gottfried"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 20:10:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/1017theone.ca\/blogs\/the-daily-scoop\/2022\/04\/rip-gilbert-gottfried\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20557,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions\/20557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}