{"id":648057,"date":"2010-01-29T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=90984"},"modified":"2010-01-29T16:02:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:02:36","slug":"etta-james-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/648057","title":{"rendered":"Etta James Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The son of soul songstress Etta James claims the 72-year-old R&#038;B legend has been diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease and is hospitalized in Southern California with an<br \/>\n infection, <a href=\"http:\/\/\">CNN<\/a> said Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Etta-James-Hospitalized.jpg?resize=445%2C600\" alt=\"\" title=\"Etta James Hospitalized\" width=\"445\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-90985\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-90984\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donto James says his famous mother has been at Riverside Community Hospital for about a week and is recovering from sepsis caused by a urinary tract infection.<\/p>\n<p>Etta, who previously battled an addiction to heroin, entered a treatment program last month for a dependency on painkillers and over-the-counter medicine. She was transferred to another facility and then the hospital when her physical condition worsened.<\/p>\n<p>Her dementia caused Etta to make controversial comments about singer Beyonce &#8212; who played the singer in the 2008 film <em>Cadillac Records<\/em> &#8212; during  a concert last year. Etta made headlines when she  suggested the pop star should be &#8220;whipped&#8221; for singing &#8220;At Last&#8221; for President Obama&#8217;s inaugural ball.<\/p>\n<p>James is best remembered for her rendition of &#8220;At Last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ewqr7uQ7mEq-S2_0weuNjSKgFXI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ewqr7uQ7mEq-S2_0weuNjSKgFXI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ewqr7uQ7mEq-S2_0weuNjSKgFXI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ewqr7uQ7mEq-S2_0weuNjSKgFXI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son of soul songstress Etta James claims the 72-year-old R&#038;B legend has been diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease and is hospitalized in Southern California with an infection, CNN said Friday. Donto James says his famous mother has been at Riverside Community Hospital for about a week and is recovering from sepsis caused by a urinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IAx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}