{"id":15576,"date":"2026-04-08T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=15576"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:17:00","slug":"he-watched-his-brother-die-and-battled-a-daily-addiction-of-100-pills-yet-he-rose-to-become-one-of-the-greatest-stars-weve-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=15576","title":{"rendered":"He watched his brother die and battled a daily addiction of 100 pills \u2014 yet he rose to become one of the greatest stars we\u2019ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He started as a barefoot farm boy in Arkansas, singing through long days in the fields. After his brother\u2019s death, something in him broke\u2014and found its voice. That pain echoed through every song, a man wrestling with fate, faith, and himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addiction nearly took him, but love pulled him back\u2014love for a woman who stayed, and for the struggling people he sang to because he was one of them. Johnny Cash\u2019s legacy isn\u2019t just in hits, but in how his scars gave comfort to millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He started as a barefoot farm boy in Arkansas, singing through long days in the fields. After his brother\u2019s death, something in him broke\u2014and found its voice. That pain echoed through every song, a man wrestling with fate, faith, and himself. Addiction nearly took him, but love pulled him back\u2014love for a woman who stayed, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15576","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\/15576","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=15576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}