{"id":13987,"date":"2016-04-25T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13987"},"modified":"2016-04-25T08:31:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T12:31:53","slug":"why-there-have-been-so-many-celebrity-deaths-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/why-there-have-been-so-many-celebrity-deaths-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Why There Have Been So Many Celebrity Deaths In 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/042516_1228_WhyThereHav1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harper Lee. Alan Rickman. David Bowie. And now Prince. 2016 has been a rough year for noted celebrities. Roland Hughes and Laura Gray wrote about why there has been so much death:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Television meant increasing fame for a larger group of people.<\/li>\n<li>TV really spread in the 60s \u2013 and those that were famous then are beginning to enter their 70s now and are dying off.<\/li>\n<li>Soon after World War 2 there was also a growth spurt in the population known as the baby boom. Baby boomers make up a large proportion of the population and thus of celebrities. As they enter their grey years they&#8217;re passing away.<\/li>\n<li>All of this helps explains why in the first three months of 2016 around twice as many celebrities died as in the first three months of 2015.<\/li>\n<li>It also means that we should expect the rest of this year \u2013 and the next ten or so years \u2013 to be heavy on celebrity deaths, as boomers continue to age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-36108133\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-36108133\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harper Lee. Alan Rickman. David Bowie. And now Prince. 2016 has been a rough year for noted celebrities. Roland Hughes and Laura Gray wrote about why there has been so much death: Television meant increasing fame for a larger group of people. TV really spread in the 60s \u2013 and those that were famous then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/042516_1228_WhyThereHav1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13989,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987\/revisions\/13989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}