{"id":7985,"date":"2026-02-27T00:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:07:06","slug":"heiress-dies-at-her-boston-home-at-age-of-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/?p=7985","title":{"rendered":"heiress dies at her Boston home at age of 89"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joan Kennedy, the first wife of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, has died in her Boston home at the age of 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy passed away peacefully in her sleep early Wednesday morning, a family spokesman confirmed.She was married to the late senator for 24 years. The pair shared three children together: Kara, Ted Jr and Patrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The classically trained pianist and politician divorced in 1983, but was long-remembered for the struggles she endured throughout their marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy battled alcoholism and depression for many years, becoming one of the first leading ladies in America to publicly address addiction struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was an advocate for mental health and addiction services.<strong>READ MORE BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gfdgfdgdfgdgf-300x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7388\" style=\"width:33px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gfdgfdgdfgdgf-300x300-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gfdgfdgdfgdgf-300x300-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Kennedy, the first wife of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, has died in her Boston home at the age of 89. Kennedy passed away peacefully in her&#8230; <\/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-7985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7986,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions\/7986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}