{"id":6813,"date":"2025-10-09T23:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6813"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:50:53","slug":"former-sen-ted-kennedys-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6813","title":{"rendered":"Former Sen. Ted Kennedy\u2019s ex-"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Joan Bennett Kennedy Dies at 89<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joan Bennett Kennedy, admired for her grace, love of music, and devotion to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>family, passed away peacefully at her Boston home on October 8, 2025. She was 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news was shared by the Massachusetts Democratic Party on behalf of the Kennedy family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Life with Ted Kennedy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joan married Senator Ted Kennedy in 1958 after meeting him the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A gifted pianist, she balanced public life with her passion for music and family, enduring tragedies that struck the Kennedy family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strength and Advocacy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After her 1983 divorce, Joan focused on music education, charity, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mental health advocacy, remaining a guiding presence in her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tributes and Legacy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her son Ted Jr. said, \u201cI will always admire my mother for facing challenges with grace, courage, humility, and honesty.\u201d Remembered as \u201cbeautiful, chic, caring, and courageous,\u201d Joan leaves a legacy of resilience, compassion, and music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Bennett Kennedy Dies at 89 Joan Bennett Kennedy, admired for her grace, love of music, and devotion to family, passed away peacefully at her Boston home on October 8, 2025. She was 89. The news was shared by the Massachusetts Democratic Party on behalf of the Kennedy family. Life with Ted Kennedy Joan married&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6814,"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-6813","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\/6813","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=6813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6815,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions\/6815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}