{"id":2524,"date":"2025-07-25T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:03:08","slug":"a-country-star-and-actor-passed-away-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"A Country Star And Actor Passed Away At 88"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kris Kristofferson Dies at 88<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Country music legend and actor Kris Kristofferson died at 88 in his Maui home on September 28, surrounded by family, according to PEOPLE. His family shared,&nbsp;<em>\u201cIt is with a heavy heart that we share the news our husband\/father\/grandfather, Kris Kristofferson, passed away peacefully\u2026 Thank you for loving him all these many years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From Soldier to Songwriter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1936 in Texas, Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar and U.S. Army helicopter pilot before turning to music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Breakthrough in Music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After moving to Nashville in the \u201960s, he worked odd jobs while pitching songs. He rose to fame with hits like&nbsp;<em>\u201cMe and Bobby McGee\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>\u201cSunday Mornin\u2019 Comin\u2019 Down.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;He later joined the iconic group The Highwaymen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Success in Film<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kristofferson starred in&nbsp;<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>&nbsp;(1976), earning a Golden Globe, and retired from public life in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Kristofferson Dies at 88 Country music legend and actor Kris Kristofferson died at 88 in his Maui home on September 28, surrounded by family, according to PEOPLE. His family shared,&nbsp;\u201cIt is with a heavy heart that we share the news our husband\/father\/grandfather, Kris Kristofferson, passed away peacefully\u2026 Thank you for loving him all these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}