{"id":34976,"date":"2016-11-15T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=34976"},"modified":"2016-11-15T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:50:52","slug":"leon-white-aka-vader-says-given-less-two-years-live-due-failing-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/11\/15\/leon-white-aka-vader-says-given-less-two-years-live-due-failing-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon White, a\/k\/a Vader, says he has been given less than two years to live due to a failing heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3948231267\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Leon White, a\/k\/a Vader, announced on Twitter that he has been told by doctors he only has two years to live. \u201cTold by two heart doctors that my heart is worn out I have been given less than two years to live,\u201d he wrote on Twitter. \u201cI am only now allowing this as part of my reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is 61 years old. He played football for the University of Colorado and then had a brief stint in the NFL. He began his pro wrestling career in the AWA in the mid-1980s, thrived in Japan off on for two decades, was one of Sting&#8217;s top heel opponents during his run in WCW in the early 1990s, and had a stint in the WWF in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Told by 2 heart Drs that my heart is wore out  Ihave been given less than two yrs to live Iam only now allowing this as part of my reality<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Big Van Vader (@itsvadertime) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsvadertime\/status\/798395371470864384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3413314588\"><div id=\"pwtor-2545708023\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Leon White, a\/k\/a Vader, announced on Twitter that he has been told by doctors he only has two years to live. \u201cTold by two heart doctors that my heart is worn out I have been <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/11\/15\/leon-white-aka-vader-says-given-less-two-years-live-due-failing-heart\/\" title=\"Leon White, a\/k\/a Vader, says he has been given less than two years to live due to a failing heart\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,3],"tags":[4231,1844],"class_list":["post-34976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_etc","category-news_wwe","tag-leon-white","tag-vader"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/11\/Vader_WK_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34978,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976\/revisions\/34978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}