{"id":1075,"date":"2013-01-15T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gactv.com\/?p=37623"},"modified":"2013-01-15T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:49:59","slug":"mindy-mccready-mourns-the-loss-of-her-sons-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/mindy-mccready-mourns-the-loss-of-her-sons-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindy McCready Mourns the Loss of Her Son\u2019s Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 410px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gactv.com\/gac\/ar_az_mindy_mccready\/article\/0,3031,GAC_26121_6025510_,00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mindy McCready\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sndimg.com\/gac\/news\/mindymccready1_h.jpg\" alt=\"Mindy McCready\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mindy McCready photo by JT Sumner, courtesy of Music City News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">GAC extends condolences to <a title=\"Mindy McCready Artist Section\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gactv.com\/gac\/ar_az_mindy_mccready\" ><strong>Mindy McCready<\/strong><\/a>, whose partner, songwriter\/producer David Wilson, 34, of Heber Springs,\u00a0Arkansas, died in the early evening of January 13. Wilson was the father of Mindy&#8217;s 9-month-old son, Zayne (Mindy also has an older son, Zander, from a previous relationship). Mindy released this statement via her publicist:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Today, we mourn the loss of my\u00a0life partner and my children&#8217;s father, David Wilson.\u00a0David was my soulmate; he was a caregiver and\u00a0guiding hand to our sons, Zander and Zayne.\u00a0He was a precious gift from God to all of us and, yesterday, he returned home and is now with his mother and\u00a0father. <span id=\"more-37623\"><\/span>David loved and he was loved. Those who knew and loved him will miss him; those who did not know David, missed the opportunity to know a truely loving and gifted man.<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE: According to <a title=\"The Boot Mindy McCready article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theboot.com\/2013\/01\/14\/david-wilson-suicide-mindy-mccready\/\" >The Boot<\/a>, the Cleburne County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Heber Springs, Arkansas released the cause of Wilson&#8217;s death: suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a id=\"ck_email_37623\" class=\"chicklet\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/92\/211633454_5a625e2d1d.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a id=\"ck_facebook_37623\" class=\"chicklet\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/favicon.ico\" \/><\/a> <a id=\"ck_twitter_37623\" class=\"chicklet\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/favicon.ico\" \/><\/a> <a id=\"ck_sharethis_37623\" class=\"chicklet stbutton stico_default\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">ShareThis<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar shared_object = SHARETHIS.addEntry({\n\ttitle:'Mindy McCready Mourns the Loss of Her Son&#8217;s Father',\n\turl:'http:\/\/blog.gactv.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/mindy-mccready-mourns-the-loss-of-her-sons-father\/'\n});\nshared_object.attachButton(document.getElementById(\"ck_sharethis_37623\"));\nshared_object.attachChicklet(\"email\", document.getElementById(\"ck_email_37623\"));\nshared_object.attachChicklet(\"facebook\", document.getElementById(\"ck_facebook_37623\"));\nshared_object.attachChicklet(\"twitter\", document.getElementById(\"ck_twitter_37623\"));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAC extends condolences to Mindy McCready, whose partner, songwriter\/producer David Wilson, 34, of Heber Springs,&nbsp;Arkansas, died in the early evening of January 13. Wilson was the father of Mindy&rsquo;s 9-month-old son, Zayne (Mindy also has an older son, Zander, from a previous relationship). Mindy released this statement via her publicist: Today, we mourn the loss [&#8230;] <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/mindy-mccready-mourns-the-loss-of-her-sons-father\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[578,301,12,577,7,16,579,580],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickincountry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}