{"id":4873,"date":"2010-12-28T03:24:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T03:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2010-12-28T03:24:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T03:24:30","slug":"elton-john-is-allegedly-retiring-and-ready-to-start-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"Elton John is allegedly retiring and ready to start a family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ejohn-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <i>Two days ago it was Hugh Hefner, today it is Elton John who catches me by surprise. Apparently, Elton is ready to start a family now that he is retiring from the road. People Magazine reports:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The singer, 62, and husband David Furnish, 48, welcomed son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John on Dec. 25, John&#8217;s rep confirms to PEOPLE. <\/p>\n<p>The 7 lb., 15 oz., baby was delivered via surrogate in California. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment,&#8221; the couple, who exchanged vows in a civil ceremony in 2005, said in a statement. &#8220;Zachary is healthy and doing really well, and we are very proud and happy parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just last year, Furish told PEOPLE they were going to wait to start a family until John was ready to come off the road. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to put the raising of children into the hands of nannies and housekeepers,&#8221; said Furnish. &#8220;We want to be active parents. We have godchildren [and] kids that we support in Africa, so we&#8217;re fine.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago it was Hugh Hefner, today it is Elton John who catches me by surprise. Apparently, Elton is ready to start a family <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4873\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ejohn.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"237\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-people"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}