{"id":1639,"date":"2016-02-01T05:34:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/01\/vanessa-hudgens-announces-fathers-death-will-perform-grease-live-in-his-honor\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T05:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T21:34:38","slug":"vanessa-hudgens-announces-fathers-death-will-perform-grease-live-in-his-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/01\/vanessa-hudgens-announces-fathers-death-will-perform-grease-live-in-his-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Hudgens announces father&#039;s death; will perform &#039;Grease: Live&#039; in his honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanessahudgens\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzMxLzBmL3ZhbmVzc2FodWRnLjM2Zjk0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/13ac62b5\/02f\/vanessahudgens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Vanessa+Hudgens+announces+father%27s+death%3B+will+perform+%27Grease%3A+Live%27+in+his+honor&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F31%2Fvanessa-hudgens-father-death-grease-live%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F31%2Fvanessa-hudgens-father-death-grease-live%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just hours before her starring turn as Rizzo in Fox&#8217;s <em>Grease: Live<\/em> Vanessa Hudgens announced on Twitter that her father passed away Saturday night after a battle with cancer<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/29\/grease-live-preview\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Secrets from the set of Fox&#8217;s &#8216;Grease: Live&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hudgens still plans to perform the show tonight alongside contemporaries including Julianne Hough and Aaron Tveit. She tweeted: <\/p>\n<p>Hudgens&#8217; long-time friend from <em>High School Musical<\/em> days, Ashley Tisdale, tweeted (presumably in reference to Hudgens): <\/p>\n<p>Hudgens had revealed in August, while accepting an award at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/news\/170342_vanessa_hudgens_reveals_her_father_has_stage_4_cancer\/\">2015 Industry Dance Awards<\/a>, that her father was battling stage four cancer  <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/31\/vanessa-hudgens-father-death-grease-live\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/obituary\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Obituary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/lifestyle\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lifestyle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/work-play\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Work Play<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/grease-live\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Grease Live<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/D0bFm8DtXkM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours before her starring turn as Rizzo in Fox&#8217;s Grease: Live Vanessa Hudgens announced on Twitter that her father passed away Saturday night after a battle with cancer See also: Secrets from the set of Fox&#8217;s &#8216;Grease: Live&#8217; Hudgens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/01\/vanessa-hudgens-announces-fathers-death-will-perform-grease-live-in-his-honor\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}