{"id":7288,"date":"2026-01-19T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:46:17","slug":"dick-van-dyke-opens-up-about-sad-reality-of-living-to-almost-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7288","title":{"rendered":"Dick Van Dyke opens up about sad reality of living to almost 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dick Van Dyke, nearing 100, has faced grief by outliving most friends, including his pal Ed, with whom he planned an\u00a0Odd Couple<\/em>\u00a0remake before Ed\u2019s 2021 death at 91. \u201cI\u2019ve lost a lot of friends,\u201d he said. His wife Arlene called it \u201cthe curse of living to almost 100,\u201d yet praised his lifelong positivity: \u201cLife\u2019s been good to me. I can\u2019t complain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 99-year-old missed hosting Vandy Camp in Malibu on June 28 due to illness. Arlene announced: \u201cWhen you\u2019re 99 and a half, you have good days and bad days\u2026 today is not a good day.\u201d She assured fans he\u2019d likely attend the next event and celebrated his role in fans\u2019 childhoods.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dick Van Dyke, nearing 100, has faced grief by outliving most friends, including his pal Ed, with whom he planned an\u00a0Odd Couple\u00a0remake before Ed\u2019s 2021 […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288","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=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7289,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions\/7289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}