{"id":3877,"date":"2026-02-26T05:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:04:05","slug":"heiress-dies-at-her-boston-home-at-age-of-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/?p=3877","title":{"rendered":"heiress dies at her Boston home at age of 89"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joan Kennedy, the first wife of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, has died in her Boston home at the age of 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy passed away peacefully in her sleep early Wednesday morning, a family spokesman confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was married to the late senator for 24 years. The pair shared three children together: Kara, Ted Jr and Patrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The classically trained pianist and politician divorced in 1983, but was long-remembered for the struggles she endured throughout their marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy battled alcoholism and depression for many years, becoming one of the first leading ladies in America to publicly address addiction struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was an advocate for mental health and addiction services.<strong>READ MORE BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Kennedy, the first wife of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, has died in her Boston home at the age of 89. Kennedy passed away peacefully in her sleep early Wednesday &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}