{"id":35434,"date":"2023-09-02T11:48:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=35434"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:48:48","slug":"sadness-in-margaritaville-as-jimmy-buffett-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/09\/02\/sadness-in-margaritaville-as-jimmy-buffett-dies-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadness in Margaritaville as Jimmy Buffett dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a 50-plus year recording career that spawned unparalleled devotion from fans, as well as branded restaurants, books, beer, resorts, a Broadway show, and a cruise line,\u00a0established Buffett as a bona fide mogul.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/download-2.jpg?resize=320%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35435\" style=\"width:320px;height:213px\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/download-2.jpg?w=840&amp;ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/download-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/download-2.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cMargaritaville\u201d icon died Friday, according to a statement on his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmybuffett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official website<\/a>&nbsp;and social media pages. He was 76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmybuffett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The statement<\/a>&nbsp;reads the singer died &#8220;peacefully &#8230; surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buffett struggled with an undisclosed health issue starting in 2022 when he was hospitalized and forced to cancel several shows. In May and June 2023,\u00a0he canceled more\u00a0concerts after revealing he was \u201cback in the hospital to address some issues that needed immediate attention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But a 50-plus year recording career that spawned unparalleled devotion from fans, as well as branded restaurants, books, beer, resorts, a Broadway show, and a cruise line,\u00a0established Buffett as a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[5894],"class_list":["post-35434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sadness-in-margaritaville-as-jimmy-buffett-dies-at-76"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35436,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35434\/revisions\/35436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}