{"id":209100,"date":"2012-08-27T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T23:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=209100"},"modified":"2012-08-28T17:56:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T22:56:03","slug":"renowned-pianist-van-cliburn-diagnosed-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=209100","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Pianist Van Cliburn Diagnosed with Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=209161\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-209161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/Van-Cliburn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Van Cliburn\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-209161\" \/><\/a>FORT WORTH (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer. His longtime friend and publicist, Mary Lou Falcone, announced the news Monday. She says the 78-year-old Cliburn is resting comfortably at his home in Fort Worth. She says his spirits are high and he\u2019s under excellent care. Cliburn grew up in Kilgore. He skyrocketed to fame in 1958 when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow at age 23. He returned to a New York ticker tape parade, the only one ever for a classical musician. He has performed for every president since Harry Truman, and for years has devoted his time to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Founded by Fort Worth music teachers in 1962, it\u2019s held every four years and now considered the world\u2019s premiere piano competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer. His longtime friend and publicist, Mary Lou Falcone, announced the news Monday. She says the 78-year-old Cliburn is resting comfortably at his home in Fort Worth. She says his spirits are high and he\u2019s under excellent care. Cliburn grew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=209100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Renowned Pianist Van Cliburn Diagnosed with Cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 14:02:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209100","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209100"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209344,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209100\/revisions\/209344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}