{"id":13282,"date":"2005-08-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/peter-jennings-dead-at-67\/"},"modified":"2005-08-08T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T11:00:00","slug":"peter-jennings-dead-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/peter-jennings-dead-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jennings Dead At 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/08\/07\/jennings.obit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Peter Jennings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/peterjennings.jpg\" \/><\/a><i>CNN<\/i> reports that &ldquo;nearly four months to the day since he announced in a hoarse voice on his evening newscast that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/08\/07\/jennings.obit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">longtime ABC <i>World News Tonight<\/i> anchor Peter Jennings died Sunday<\/a>.&rdquo;  I am very saddened to hear this news, as I was a regular viewer of ABC News specifically because I preferred Jennings&rsquo; reporting to that of the other network news anchors.  Just last week I actually wondered how he was doing in his chemotherapy, but obviously the cancer had advanced too quickly.  <i>ABC News<\/i> has posted a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/PeterJennings\/\" target=\"_blank\">retrospective of his life and career<\/a>.  He will definitely be missed. \ud83d\ude41  <\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/news\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/obituaries\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">obituaries<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112349884923673657?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that &ldquo;nearly four months to the day since he announced in a hoarse voice on his evening newscast that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, longtime ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings died Sunday.&rdquo; I am very saddened to hear this news, as I was a regular viewer of ABC News &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/peter-jennings-dead-at-67\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peter Jennings Dead At 67&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}