{"id":25697,"date":"2012-01-13T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=25697"},"modified":"2012-01-13T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:11:56","slug":"black-sabbath-tony-iommi-issues-health-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=25697","title":{"rendered":"BLACK SABBATH &#8211; Tony Iommi Issues Health Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TonyIommi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TonyIommi-125x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"TonyIommi\" width=\"125\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25698\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDen Headz, everyone has been speculating if Tony Iommi&#8217;s recent cancer diagnosis would put recording and touring for the reunited BLACK SABBATH on hold, but the legendary guitarist has issued a statement on his official website, and it seems that the show must go on:<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;My fans, friends &#038; colleagues &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>    I just want to say how overwhelmed I am with all your messages of support, thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p>    Well it&#8217;s not what I wanted for Christmas, that&#8217;s for sure, but now I can&#8217;t wait for the test results to come in and get going with the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>    It&#8217;s really good that the guys are coming over so that we can continue working on the album as things are going great in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>    Well, not much else to say at this time, so thanks again.<\/p>\n<p>    Bless you all,<br \/>\n    Tony&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iommi.com\/\">http:\/\/www.iommi.com\/<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Headz, everyone has been speculating if Tony Iommi&#8217;s recent cancer diagnosis would put recording&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}