{"id":866,"date":"2010-03-14T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2010-03-14T04:11:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T11:11:02","slug":"olbermann-im-sad-to-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/olbermann-im-sad-to-announce\/","title":{"rendered":"Olbermann: I’m Sad to Announce…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It pains me to share so great a loss to one who has given us so much.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"KeithsDad\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Theodore Olbermann, father of MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, died this afternoon after suffering complications from a surgery last year. Keith posted a tribute to his father at his Baseball Nerd<\/a> blog a short time ago.<\/p>\n

"He was my inspiration, and will always remain so," he wrote. "His bravery these last six months cannot be measured. He is as much my hero now, as he was when I was five years old."<\/p>\n

In the past few months, Olbermann did not anchor a number of "Countdown" episodes so he could spend time with his dad. He had also discussed his father’s hospitalization several times on the program.<\/p>\n

Condolences and notes can be sent to countdown@msnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I hope you will join me in letting Keith know that he and his are in our thoughts and prayers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It pains me to share so great a loss to one who has given us so much. Theodore Olbermann, father of MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, died this afternoon after suffering complications from a surgery last year. Keith posted a tribute to his father at his Baseball Nerd blog a short time ago. "He was my […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plus","category-141-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}