{"id":4384,"date":"2025-07-13T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2025-07-13T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:10:36","slug":"the-first-queen-of-country-music-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=4384","title":{"rendered":"The First Queen of Country Music, Dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Pongsri Woranuch, a celebrated icon in Thai country music\u2014known as Luk Thung\u2014has passed away at the age of 85.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23201474937\/ternalnews.com\/ternalnews.com_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She died early Sunday morning at her home<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>as confirmed by her son. Woranuch had been battling a serious lung-related illness,<\/p>\n<p>with reports varying between chronic lung disease and cancer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>In the months leading up to her passing, she had reportedly been hospitalized several times.<br \/>\nHer son, Jujuk Boonnachoti,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>shared the emotional news on Facebook, saying, \u201cAnd then Mom got on the last express train and left us.<\/p>\n<p>No more cold nights alone, no more pain. Mom, if there\u2019s anything I\u2019ve done wrong in action or in words\u2014please forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pongsri Woranuch, a celebrated icon in Thai country music\u2014known as Luk Thung\u2014has passed away at the age of 85. She died early Sunday morning at her home &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; as confirmed by&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","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=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}