{"id":22532,"date":"2026-04-06T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22532"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:51:24","slug":"a-country-star-and-actor-passed-away-at-88-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22532","title":{"rendered":"A Country Star And Actor Passed Away At 88!"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"73\" \/>\n<p data-start=\"75\" data-end=\"355\">Kris Kristofferson, the legendary country singer-songwriter and actor, has died at 88 at his home in Maui on September 28, surrounded by family. His loved ones shared, \u201cThank you for loving him all these many years, and when you see a rainbow, know he\u2019s smiling down at us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"652\">Born June 22, 1936, in Texas, Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar, Army helicopter pilot, and iconic songwriter behind hits like <em data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"505\">Me and Bobby McGee<\/em> and <em data-start=\"510\" data-end=\"538\">Sunday Mornin\u2019 Comin\u2019 Down<\/em>. He was a key figure in outlaw country and starred in films including <em data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"625\">A Star Is Born<\/em>, winning a Golden Globe.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"730\">Kristofferson retired in 2021, leaving a lasting legacy in music and film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Kristofferson, the legendary country singer-songwriter and actor, has died at 88 at his home in Maui on September 28, surrounded by family. His loved ones shared, \u201cThank you for loving him all these many years, and when you see a rainbow, know he\u2019s smiling down at us all.\u201d Born June 22, 1936, in Texas,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22532\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A Country Star And Actor Passed Away At 88!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22534,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions\/22534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}