{"id":13428,"date":"2024-07-14T12:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13428"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:58:16","slug":"dr-ruth-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/14\/dr-ruth-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ruth Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/13\/arts\/television\/ruth-westheimer-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr. Ruth Westheimer Makes Her First Appearance | Carson Tonight Show\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UoLIOO7Y7Pw?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>Ruth Westheimer, the grandmotherly psychologist who as \u201cDr. Ruth\u201d became America\u2019s best-known sex counselor with her frank, funny radio and television programs, died on Friday at her home in New York City. She was 96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Westheimer was in her 50s when she first went on the air in 1980, answering listeners\u2019 mailed-in questions about sex and relationships on the radio station WYNY in New York. The show, called \u201cSexually Speaking,\u201d was only a 15-minute segment heard after midnight on Sundays. But it was such a hit that she quickly became a national media celebrity and a one-woman business conglomerate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At her most popular, in the 1980s, she had syndicated live call-in shows on radio and television, wrote a column for Playgirl magazine, lent her name to a board game and its computer version, and began rolling out guidebooks on sexuality that covered the field from educating the young to recharging the old. College students loved her; campus speaking appearances alone brought in a substantial income. She appeared in ads for cars, soft drinks, shampoo, typewriters and condoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/13\/arts\/television\/ruth-westheimer-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96 Ruth Westheimer, the grandmotherly psychologist who as \u201cDr. Ruth\u201d became America\u2019s best-known sex counselor with her frank, funny radio and television programs, died on Friday at her home in New York City. She was 96. Dr. Westheimer was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}