{"id":111501,"date":"2024-07-13T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/13\/ask-dr-ruth-star-passed-away-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:19:18","slug":"ask-dr-ruth-star-passed-away-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/13\/ask-dr-ruth-star-passed-away-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ask Dr. Ruth&#8217; Star passed away yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Ruth Westheimer, beloved sex therapist and media personality, passed away at 96, surrounded by loved ones. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ct9mXfrhPs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/ct9mXfrhPs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LgnpRUOmvZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/LgnpRUOmvZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PRIDE Radio on iHeartRadio \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f (@prideradio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prideradio\/status\/1812215082119578012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; She was 96 and died at home, surrounded by loved ones; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dr. Westheimer, popularly known as Dr. Ruth, rose to fame in the early 1980s with her radio show &#8220;Sexually Speaking,&#8221; where she answered call-in questions from listeners. Her candid and approachable style made her a trusted voice on the topic of sex. She also hosted several TV shows, authored dozens of best-selling books, and was one of the first media figures to discuss the AIDS epidemic openly; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/113874852.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She also brought ONTD together in discussing loneliness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prideradio\/status\/1812215082119578012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Wow, I absolutely don&#8217;t know how to tag this.<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128792774.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ruth Westheimer, beloved sex therapist and media personality, passed away at 96, surrounded by loved ones. https:\/\/t.co\/ct9mXfrhPs pic.twitter.com\/LgnpRUOmvZ \u2014 PRIDE Radio on iHeartRadio \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f (@prideradio) July 13, 2024 &#8211; She was 96 and died at home, surrounded by loved ones; &#8211; Dr. Westheimer, popularly known as Dr. Ruth, rose to fame in the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}