{"id":6416,"date":"2012-02-12T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T13:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2021-03-20T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T19:39:05","slug":"rip-whitney-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6416","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Whitney Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z021212whiitney_houston.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"335\" \/>Last night, at a little after <strong>7pm est<\/strong>, as my wife and I were watching <em><strong>The Double<\/strong><\/em> on <strong>Netflix<\/strong>, our son, <strong>Chris<\/strong>, texted us that <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong> <strong>had died<\/strong>.\u00a0 Like most of the rest of the world, we were saddened and surprised, but not shocked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong> was a <strong>superstar<\/strong>.\u00a0 A singer beyond compare.\u00a0 She was the first female to have an album debut at <strong>#1<\/strong>.\u00a0 She was the<strong> first and only<\/strong> recording artist to have <strong>7 straight number one hits<\/strong>.\u00a0 These are only two of her <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Houston_chart_records_and_achievements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>many recording records<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 <strong>Whitney\u00a0 Houston<\/strong> was also <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001365\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>an actress<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> appearing in several films, the best known being <em><strong>The Bodyguard<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Waiting to Exhale<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ms. Houston<\/strong> married singer, <strong>Bobby Brown<\/strong>, in <strong>1992<\/strong>. Many <del><\/del> blame him for <strong>Whitney&#8217;s<\/strong> descent into <strong>drug addiction<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Houston<\/strong> and <strong>Brown<\/strong> were <strong>married<\/strong> for <strong>16 years<\/strong> and had one daughter, <strong>Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sadly, as the years passed, <strong>Whitney<\/strong> made fewer and fewer <strong>albums<\/strong> or <strong>movies<\/strong> and her appearances in the press were usually something drug-related.\u00a0 <strong>Ms. Houston<\/strong> made at least <strong>three<\/strong> attempts at <strong>rehab<\/strong> and talked openly about her struggles with drugs in a famous interview with <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> in <strong>2009<\/strong>.\u00a0 Fans hoped that <strong>Whitney<\/strong> had kicked the drugs and things looked promising in<strong> 2010<\/strong> when she began her <em><strong>&#8220;Nothing But Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> world tour.\u00a0 Although drugs had a taken a toll on her, <strong>Whitney<\/strong> was back on stage and touring and things seemed to be headed in the right direction.\u00a0 <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong> was set to appear on the <strong>Grammy<\/strong> awards tonight.\u00a0 It would have been a wonderful step in her comeback.\u00a0 Unfortunately that was not to be.\u00a0 Instead the <strong>Grammy&#8217;s<\/strong> will feature a tribute to the once-reigning queen of pop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Rest in Peace, <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong>.\u00a0 Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, at a little after 7pm est, as my wife and I were watching The Double on Netflix, our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,64,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-music","category-rip","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26483,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions\/26483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}