{"id":2235,"date":"2010-05-16T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.wordpress.com\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2010-05-16T10:04:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:04:25","slug":"ronnie-james-dio-is-not-dead-but-not-doing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie James Dio Is NOT DEAD But Not Doing Well."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/ronniejamesdio2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1888\" title=\"ronniejamesdio2\" src=\"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/ronniejamesdio2.jpg?w=259\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Late Saturday night rumors started circulating that Heavy Metal legend Ronnie James Dio had lost his battle with cancer.\u00a0 Dio was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year but was showing that he was putting up one hell of a fight.\u00a0 Dio was present in April to present at Revolver&#8217;s Golden God Awards and discussed his cancer on the Black Carpet.\u00a0 His band Heaven &amp; Hell (Dio-era Black Sabbath) had dates booked in Europe but released a statement earlier this month saying that <strong>Dio<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t &#8220;well enough to tour this summer. We hope that everyone understands and want to thank fans and industry colleagues for their continuing support at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manager and wife <strong>Wendy Dio<\/strong> posted the following message on <strong>Ronnie<\/strong>&#8216;s official <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialRJDio\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter profile<\/a> at approximately 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, May 16: &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe the rumors, <strong>Ronnie<\/strong> is still hanging in there!!! Hugs, <strong>Wendy Dio<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not looking good for our Elfin God of Metal but one can only hope for the best and that he&#8217;s not suffering too terribly.\u00a0 He is quite a fighter but maybe this Dragon is just too tough to slay.\u00a0 My positive thoughts and wishes are with Ronnie, Wendy and all the Dio fans all over the world.\u00a0 Ronnie James Dio has touched millions of Metal fans all over the world.\u00a0 He is a great human being and an influence to many.\u00a0 He is a warrior for all of us and is a guy that stands up and shouts for us and lets us all know that we have a place in this world and that it&#8217;s by no means a small place!<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie, hang in there and I hope that you will find peace in all of this!\u00a0 No matter what happens, you&#8217;ve slayed the Dragon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Saturday night rumors started circulating that Heavy Metal legend Ronnie James Dio had lost his battle with cancer.\u00a0 Dio was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year but was showing that he was putting up one hell of a fight.\u00a0 Dio was present in April to present at Revolver&#8217;s Golden God Awards and discussed his cancer on the Black Carpet.\u00a0 His band Heaven &amp; Hell (Dio-era Black Sabbath) had dates booked in Europe but released a statement earlier this month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}