{"id":118408,"date":"2026-08-25T18:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118408"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:52:26","slug":"118408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118408","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/country-legend-dolly-parton-dead-80?msockid=3e3963f0d8c96a3f0e237466d9476ba4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dolly Parton dead at 80 as country music world mourns beloved icon whose songs shaped generations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dolly Parton died Tuesday following a &#8220;brief battle with cancer,&#8221; Fox News Digital confirmed. She was 80.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched,&#8221; her team said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her unmatched generosity reached the lives of countless people whom she would never meet, yet she was always there to offer a helping hand. Whether it be the hundreds of millions of books donated through her invaluable Imagination Library or funding research that helped create a lifesaving vaccine used around the world, Dolly\u2019s unconditional love for all people was the guiding force for her lasting impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Parton died peacefully in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, according to a press release obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton dead at 80 as country music world mourns beloved icon whose songs shaped generations Dolly Parton died Tuesday following a &#8220;brief battle with cancer,&#8221; Fox News Digital confirmed. She was 80. \u201cOur beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched,&#8221; her team said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118408\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118409,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118408\/revisions\/118409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}