{"id":1553,"date":"2009-06-26T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/pop-star-michael-jackson-dies-at-the-age-of-50-after-cardiac-arrest\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T20:43:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T20:43:33","slug":"pop-star-michael-jackson-dies-at-the-age-of-50-after-cardiac-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/pop-star-michael-jackson-dies-at-the-age-of-50-after-cardiac-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Star Michael Jackson Dies at the age of 50 After Cardiac Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Star Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50 after a Cardiac Arrest at his home in Los Angeles. The star&#8217;s brother, Jermaine Jackson, confirmed the news of his death.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;My brother, the legendary King of Pop, passed away on Thursday June 25 at 2.26pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was just weeks away from beginning a 50-date comeback tour in London, that of which I had tickets to see!<\/p>\n<p>His unexpected death has devastated fans and sparked a flood of tributes from the biggest names in the music industry. It of course\u00a0has also led to speculation as to what killed him.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2009\/06\/michael_jackson.jpg\" alt=\"Pop Star Legend Michael Jackson Dies at the Age of 50\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pop Star Legend Michael Jackson Dies at the Age of 50<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Star Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50 after a Cardiac Arrest at his home in Los Angeles. The star&#8217;s brother, Jermaine Jackson, confirmed the news of his death.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;My brother, the legendary King of Pop, passed away on Thursday June 25 at 2.26pm.&#8221; He was just weeks away from beginning a 50-date comeback tour in London, that<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/pop-star-michael-jackson-dies-at-the-age-of-50-after-cardiac-arrest\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pop Star Michael Jackson Dies at the age of 50 After Cardiac Arrest&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}