{"id":865793,"date":"2026-08-21T04:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865793\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T04:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:28:12","slug":"earth-wind-fires-john-paris-woke-up-from-coma-needs-2-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865793\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Wind & Fire’s John Paris Woke Up From Coma, Needs 2 Surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earth, Wind & Fire’s John Paris
\n Needs Multiple Surgeries After Medical Emergency<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n August 20, 2026
\n 5:20 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"john<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

John Paris<\/a> has got a ways to go on his road to recovery … involving 2 major surgeries, according to a new update on his condition.<\/p>\n

In a new post, the Standing for John Paris Facebook page<\/a> shared that the Earth, Wind & Fire drummer woke up again from his coma … and this time was stable enough for doctors to evaluate him.<\/p>\n

According to the update, the doctors ran some addition tests and determined that John will need “two major surgeries.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"earth<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

This means the musician will be in the ICU “longer than everyone had hoped” while recovering from his scary medical emergency.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

According to the post, John’s wife Kathy Merrick shared … “This journey is definitely a marathon, but JP is fighting every single day and our hope is strong.”<\/p>\n

As you know, John suffered a medical emergency earlier this month and was put in an induced coma at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Play video content<\/p>\n

\"2026<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Earth, Wind & Fire’s\u00a0Ralph Johnson<\/a> said their drummer’s “gonna be fine<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

We’re wishing John a speedy and safe recovery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earth, Wind & Fire’s John Paris Needs Multiple Surgeries After Medical Emergency Published August 20, 2026 5:20 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-865793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865793","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=865793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}