{"id":11352,"date":"2026-08-20T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=11352"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:00:34","slug":"what-happened-to-jimmy-fortune-at-70-try-not-to-cry-when-you-see-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=11352","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Jimmy Fortune At 70 \u2013 Try Not to CRY When You See This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time you see Jimmy Fortune at 70, it hits you. Not just the years on his face, but the stories in his eyes. The crowds are smaller now. The spotlight softer. Yet when he opens his mouth to sing, something happens that feels almost holy. It\u2019s not just nostalgia. It\u2019s surviva\u2026 <strong>Continues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What happened to Jimmy Fortune at 70 is not a tragic fall from fame, but something far more moving. The man who once carried The Statler Brothers\u2019 soaring tenor lines now carries decades of loss, gratitude, and grace in every note. Friends are gone. The buses are parked. The arenas have given way to theaters and churches, where people come not only to hear him sing, but to remember who they were when his songs first found them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time you see Jimmy Fortune at 70, it hits you. Not just the years on his face, but the stories in his eyes. The crowds are smaller now. The spotlight softer. Yet&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11353,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions\/11353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}