{"id":785146,"date":"2026-07-07T02:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785146\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:35:13","slug":"renata-ford-widow-of-rob-ford-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785146\/","title":{"rendered":"Renata Ford, widow of Rob Ford, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Renata Ford, wife of late former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMy heart breaks for Stephanie and Dougie,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been through so much at such young ages, and losing their mom is incredibly painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur whole family is hurting for them. We ask that people respect their privacy during this very difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was 55 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 2019, she ran as a People\u2019s Party of Canada candidate during the fall federal election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a breaking news story. More details to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renata Ford, wife of late former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, has died. In a statement, Ontario Premier Doug&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-785146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}