{"id":1353053,"date":"2024-09-07T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1353053"},"modified":"2024-09-09T03:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T08:17:01","slug":"songwriter-will-jennings-dead-in-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1353053","title":{"rendered":"Songwriter Will Jennings dead in Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/WillJen-e1725738610123-195x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1353054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/WillJen-e1725738610123-195x200.webp 195w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/WillJen-e1725738610123.webp 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>KILGORE &#8211; Our news partners at KETK report that Kilgore-native and Oscar winning songwriter Will Jennings died at 80-years-old in Tyler on Friday. Jennings, who co-wrote Celine Delion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Oscar winning song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Heart Will Go On\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Titanic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, was at his home in Tyler when he died on Friday morning. No immediate cause of death was reported but his health was declining for several years. The 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee attended both Tyler Junior College and Stephen F. Austin State University. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8211; Our news partners at KETK report that Kilgore-native and Oscar winning songwriter Will Jennings died at 80-years-old in Tyler on Friday. Jennings, who co-wrote Celine Delion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Oscar winning song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Heart Will Go On\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Titanic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, was at his home in Tyler when he died on Friday morning. No immediate cause of death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1353053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Songwriter Will Jennings dead in Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1353059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/WillJen-e1725738610123-195x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 15:48:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/WillJen-e1725738610123-195x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353058,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353053\/revisions\/1353058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}