{"id":653978,"date":"2013-04-23T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=226310"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:44:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:44:12","slug":"olivia-newton-john-sister-has-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653978","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Newton-John: Sister Has Brain Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Newton-John has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/entertainment\/2013\/04\/olivia-newton-john-reveals-sisters-cancer-battle\/\">postpone<\/a> her run of Vegas shows in order to spend time with her family, after discovering her sister has brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of this news, I have decided to postpone my forthcoming Las Vegas residency to spend time with her and our family,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/news\/133194_Olivia_Newton_John_Reveals_Sister_s_Cancer_Battle\/index.html\">Newton-John wrote<\/a> in a statement. \u201cAs a cancer \u2018thriver\u2019 myself, as many people are, I am very aware of the importance of love, support and family during this journey she is about to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year old actress and singer battled breast cancer 20 years ago and is now facing a tough road with her sister, Rona. Her Vegas residency was to begin soon at the Flamingo Hotel as a stand-in for Donny and Marie Osmond&#8217;s away dates, and though it&#8217;s believed she will eventually perform, nothing has been confirmed yet. <\/p>\n<p>Rona was famously married to her sister&#8217;s &#8220;Grease&#8221; co-star, Jeff Conaway, for five years. They have a son together, 38-year old Emerson. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=dMlxaQ7SjaA:ozizQ1t1w2A:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/dMlxaQ7SjaA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Newton-John has decided to postpone her run of Vegas shows in order to spend time with her family, after discovering her sister has brain cancer. \u201cIn light of this news, I have decided to postpone my forthcoming Las Vegas residency to spend time with her and our family,\u201d Newton-John wrote in a statement. \u201cAs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}