{"id":39938,"date":"2026-08-26T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=39938"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:27:45","slug":"hard-times-dolly-partons-final-interview-days-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=39938","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hard times\u2019: Dolly Parton\u2019s final interview days before death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton detailed \u201chard times\u201d with her health days before her death at 80.<br \/>\nIn the country music icon\u2019s final interview, released Friday, she opened up to People about \u201cdealing with some health issues,\u201d which forced her to cancel an appearance at her Dollywood theme park the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>However, she noted, \u201cIt\u2019s not like I haven\u2019t been through hard times with my health.\u201d<br \/>\nDolly Parton with hands on hips, wearing a sparkling red dress with large ruffled sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly Parton (above in 1982) spoke about \u201chard times\u201d with her health days ahead of her passing. Everett Collection \/ Everett Col<br \/>\nDolly Parton performs in orange and white sparkling stage wear during a college football game. CONTINUE READING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton detailed \u201chard times\u201d with her health days before her death at 80. In the country music icon\u2019s final interview, released Friday, she opened up to People about \u201cdealing with some health issues,\u201d which forced her to cancel an appearance at her Dollywood theme park the previous week. However, she noted, \u201cIt\u2019s not like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39940,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39938\/revisions\/39940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}