{"id":10270,"date":"2019-11-03T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10270"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:15:12","slug":"walter-mercado-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/03\/walter-mercado-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Mercado Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2019-11-03\/walter-mercado-astrologer-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from the LA Times (opens in a new tab)\">from the LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado dies at 87<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/associated-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Epic entrance of Walter Mercado at the opening of his Miami exhibit\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VbX-sF5nEOo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico &nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walter Mercado, a flamboyant astrologer and television personality whose daily TV appearances entertained many across Latin America and the U.S. for more than a decade, has died. He was 87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is one of those people who used his celebrity and power to reach millions in order to inspire people with good messages,\u201d said Aida Levitan, who helped organize an exhibition in August at the HistoryMiami museum to honor Mercado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said hundreds of people showed up and wanted to meet him and take pictures, and he agreed to it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2019-11-03\/walter-mercado-astrologer-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to read full obituary at LAT (opens in a new tab)\">click to read full obituary at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the LA Times Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado dies at 87 By\u00a0ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico &nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp; Walter Mercado, a flamboyant astrologer and television personality whose daily TV appearances entertained many across Latin America and the U.S. for more than a decade, has died. He was 87. \u201cHe is one of those people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}