{"id":17492,"date":"2025-05-09T23:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/?p=17492"},"modified":"2025-05-09T23:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:07:44","slug":"latest-neil-diamond-has-finally-accepted-his-parkinsons-disease-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/?p=17492","title":{"rendered":"Latest Neil Diamond Has Finally Accepted His Parkinson\u2019s Disease Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview that will appear this weekend on CBS Sunday Morning, the \u201cHello Again\u201d singer, 82, says it has only been \u201cin the last few weeks\u201d that he has accepted his diagnosis, which he initially revealed in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I enjoy it. I find that I like myself better. I\u2019m easier on people and myself, and the beat keeps going, and it will continue long after I\u2019m gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The musician quit touring five years ago, but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from communicating with his passionate followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still doing it,\u201d he says in the interview. \u201cBut this is me; this is what I must accept.\u201d \u201cAnd I\u2019m willing to do it, and, OK, so this is the hand that God has dealt me, and I have to make the best of it, and I am.\u201d Read more below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview that will appear this weekend on CBS Sunday Morning, the \u201cHello Again\u201d singer, 82, says it has only been \u201cin the last few weeks\u201d&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17494,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions\/17494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}