{"id":1746,"date":"2026-01-23T19:50:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:50:58","slug":"the-first-queen-of-country-music-dead-at-85-ternanews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"The First Queen of Country Music, Dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"anchorslot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Pongsri Woranuch, a celebrated icon in Thai country music\u2014known as Luk Thung\u2014has passed away at the age of 85.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.info_responsive_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She died early Sunday morning at her home,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1761912\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"anchorslot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>as confirmed by her son. Woranuch had been battling a serious lung-related illness,<\/p>\n<p>with reports varying between chronic lung disease and cancer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.info_responsive_2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the months leading up to her passing, she had reportedly been hospitalized several times.<br \/>\nHer son, Jujuk Boonnachoti,<\/p>\n<p>shared the emotional news on Facebook, saying, \u201cAnd then Mom got on the last express train and left us.<\/p>\n<p>No more cold nights alone, no more pain. Mom, if there\u2019s anything I\u2019ve done wrong in action or in words\u2014please forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1761906\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pongsri Woranuch, a celebrated icon in Thai country music\u2014known as Luk Thung\u2014has passed away at the age of 85. She died early Sunday morning at her home, as confirmed by &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}