{"id":17893,"date":"2026-05-20T22:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17893"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:18:26","slug":"teen-heartthrob-chooses-family-over-hollywood-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17893","title":{"rendered":"Teen Heartthrob Chooses Family Over Hollywood Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hollywood teen stars often seem to have everything, but Kirk Cameron\u2019s story took a very different turn. The \u201cGrowing Pains\u201d heartthrob of the 1980s never planned to be famous\u2014he once dreamed of becoming a surgeon and found acting annoying at first. Despite his reluctance, he became a major teen idol, yet behind the success he felt unfulfilled. In his late teens, a simple invitation to church\u2014initially motivated by a girl he liked\u2014sparked a deep spiritual awakening that reshaped his life and ultimately led him to step away from Hollywood\u2019s spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood teen stars often seem to have everything, but Kirk Cameron\u2019s story took a very different turn. The \u201cGrowing Pains\u201d heartthrob of the 1980s never planned to be famous\u2014he once dreamed of becoming a surgeon and found acting annoying at first. Despite his reluctance, he became a major teen idol, yet behind the success he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17893","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\/17893","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17895,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893\/revisions\/17895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}