{"id":18048,"date":"2014-09-02T06:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T12:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=18048"},"modified":"2014-09-02T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T21:30:14","slug":"report-joan-rivers-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/report-joan-rivers-on-life-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Joan Rivers on life support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Comic and talk show host Joan Rivers reportedly is on life support. Doctors are reportedly attempting to reverse the medically-induced coma over the course of the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The family will have to decide whether to keep Rivers, 81, on life support in the coming days, the website TMZ reported over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Fashion Police&#8221; host was undergoing throat surgery on Aug. 28 at a clinic when she stopped breathing. Rivers was immediately rushed to Manhattan&#8217;s Mount Sinai Hospital and placed into an induced coma.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family remains hopeful that if they do decide to turn off the machines, she will make a turn for the better and fight through it,&#8221; according to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Daily News reported Sunday that Rivers\u2019 daughter, Melissa, is \u201cin denial\u201d over her mother\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, a standup comic and a reality star with a career launched in the 1950s, in recent weeks drew attention for her vigorous defenses of Israel during its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Reports also claim Melissa is seriously considering pursuing litigation for malpractice against the clinic.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Report%3A%20Joan%20Rivers%20on%20life%20support\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[4733,8790,8795,2257,5945,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18049,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048\/revisions\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}