{"id":85769,"date":"2026-08-25T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85769"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:16:35","slug":"dolly-parton-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/dolly-parton-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1200\/675\/dolly-parton.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Dolly Parton\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">Legendary country singer and songwriter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/dolly-parton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_1\">Dolly Parton<\/a>\u00a0has died. She was 80.\u00a0Parton died peacefully in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, according to a press release obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Her nephew revealed the news in an Aug. 25\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/dollyparton\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> video. The news comes after Parton spent months battling an unknown health issue. In May, the country legend announced she was canceling her planned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/dolly-parton-cancels-las-vegas-residency-health-issues-force-step-back-stage-performances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_3\"><u>Las Vegas residency<\/u><\/a>, which had already been postponed from 2025 to September 2026 because of health concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Legendary country singer and songwriter\u00a0Dolly Parton\u00a0has died. She was 80.\u00a0Parton died peacefully in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85770,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85769\/revisions\/85770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}