{"id":4369,"date":"2019-11-07T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2019-11-07T01:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:36:44","slug":"puerto-rican-astrologer-walter-mercado-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4369","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rican Astrologer Walter Mercado Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Mercado was known and loved in the US and Latin America for his astrology readings and predictions. &nbsp;He first became well known in Puerto Rico as an actor and dancer and moved to South Florida in the early 1990s. &nbsp;There, he joined Univision and began a new career with new fame, delivering horoscopes, always concluding with the phrase, &#8220;Above all, lots and lots and lots of love.&#8221; &nbsp;He was an icon in the LGBTQAI+ community for never conforming &nbsp;to gender roles and challenging the Latin American conservative television culture. &nbsp;You can read the LA Times obituary below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2019-11-03\/walter-mercado-reactions\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2019-11-03\/walter-mercado-reactions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and read <span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Isvett Verde&#8217;s op ed piece about what Mercado meant to her growing up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/05\/opinion\/walter-mercado.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/05\/opinion\/walter-mercado.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Mercado was known and loved in the US and Latin America for his astrology readings and predictions. &nbsp;He first became well known in Puerto Rico as an actor and dancer and moved to South Florida in the early 1990s. &nbsp;There, he joined Univision and began a new career with new fame, delivering horoscopes, always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":4372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,64,57,59,769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-in-memoriam","category-media-of-note","category-people","category-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}