{"id":3444,"date":"2019-10-30T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hot979nc.com\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:46:20","slug":"comedian-actor-john-witherspoon-dies-at-the-age-of-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/comedian-actor-john-witherspoon-dies-at-the-age-of-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian\/Actor John Witherspoon Dies At The Age Of 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian\/Actor John Witherspoon Dies At The Age Of 77<br \/>\nThe comedy and acting world has lost a true legend today! Actor and comedian John Witherspoon, who is best known for playing the role of Pops in \u201cFriday\u201d movies.<br \/>\nAlthough no cause of death has been released, John\u2019s manager, Alex Goodman, told The Associated Press that Witherspoon died in his Los Angeles home late on Tuesday.<br \/>\nIn a statement the family of John Witherspoon said, \u201cWe are all in shock, please give us a minute for a moment in privacy and we will celebrate his life and his work together. John used to say \u2018I\u2019m no big deal\u2019, but he was huge deal to us.\u201d The given statement also let\u2019s us know John is survived by his wife, Angela, and sons JD and Alexander and a large extended family!<br \/>\nAn official statement was made from the family on John\u2019s Twitter account, as well! <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is with deep sadness we have to tweet this, but our husband &amp; father John Witherspoon has passed away. He was a Legend in the entertainment industry, and a father figure to all who watched him over the years. We love you \u201cPOPS\u201d always &amp; forever. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Witherspoon Family <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ov9P34kaMn\">pic.twitter.com\/ov9P34kaMn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Witherspoon (@John_POPS_Spoon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_POPS_Spoon\/status\/1189409257671680000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rest in Heaven!<br \/>\nBlogged By: Bernie Oh!| @IamBernieOh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian\/Actor John Witherspoon Dies At The Age Of 77 The comedy and acting world has lost a true legend today! Actor and comedian John Witherspoon, who is best known for playing the role of Pops in \u201cFriday\u201d movies. Although no cause of death has been released, John\u2019s manager, Alex Goodman, told The Associated Press that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/comedian-actor-john-witherspoon-dies-at-the-age-of-77\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comedian\/Actor John Witherspoon Dies At The Age Of 77&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1641,1640,1607,1638,1639],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-1641","tag-died","tag-friday","tag-john-witherspoon","tag-pops","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}