{"id":20182,"date":"2026-06-18T16:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20182"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:05:48","slug":"absolutely-devastating-very-sad-loss-%f0%9f%98%ad%f0%9f%92%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20182","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely devastating! VERY SAD LOSS \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udc94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary talk show pioneer Phil Donahue has passed away at 88 after a long illness. Known for transforming daytime television, he hosted more than 6,000 episodes and interviewed some of the world\u2019s most influential figures.<br \/>\nTributes poured in, including from Oprah Winfrey, who called him a trailblazer who helped shape modern daytime talk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Legendary talk show pioneer Phil Donahue has passed away at 88 after a long illness. Known for transforming daytime television, he hosted more than 6,000 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20182\" title=\"Absolutely devastating! VERY SAD LOSS \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udc94\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20184,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions\/20184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}