{"id":12901,"date":"2026-02-22T23:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=12901"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:13:25","slug":"beloved-tv-star-dies-of-cancer-aged-just-61-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=12901","title":{"rendered":"Beloved TV star dies of cancer aged just 61"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thomson, widely known for her high-profile interviews with politicians and celebrities, died Sunday morning surrounded by family after a long battle with cancer, according to CTV News. She was 61. Over her career, she reported for CTV News Toronto, later becoming a CTV News Channel anchor and appearing on Canada AM. She also served as a Global News anchor from 1997 to 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomson, widely known for her high-profile interviews with politicians and celebrities, died Sunday morning surrounded by family after a long battle with cancer, according to CTV News. She was 61. Over her career, she reported for CTV News Toronto, later becoming a CTV News Channel anchor and appearing on Canada AM. She also served as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}