{"id":69770,"date":"2018-12-03T01:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/03\/billy-connolly-announces-retirement-from-live-performance\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T01:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:01:06","slug":"billy-connolly-announces-retirement-from-live-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=69770","title":{"rendered":"Billy Connolly announces retirement from live performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian also rejects suggestions that Parkinson\u2019s disease has \u2018dulled\u2019 his brainBilly Connolly has announced that after a half-century career in standup, music, film and television he is retiring from live performing.The news came in an interview where the comedian also revealed he had tried medicinal cannabis to treat his Parkinson\u2019s disease, likened Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and rebutted Michael Parkinson\u2019s claim that his illness had \u201cdulled\u201d his brain. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2018\/dec\/03\/billy-connolly-announces-retirement-from-live-performance\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Connolly announces retirement from live performance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian also rejects suggestions that Parkinson\u2019s disease has \u2018dulled\u2019 his brainBilly Connolly has announced that after a half-century career in standup, music, film and television he is retiring from live performing.The news came in an interview where the comedian also revealed he had tried medicinal cannabis to treat his Parkinson\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}