{"id":74131,"date":"2025-04-05T21:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74131"},"modified":"2025-04-05T21:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:04:21","slug":"sir-elton-john-reveals-he-cant-read-watch-tv-or-see-his-boys-play-sports-as-he-opens-up-on-distressing-battle-with-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/05\/sir-elton-john-reveals-he-cant-read-watch-tv-or-see-his-boys-play-sports-as-he-opens-up-on-distressing-battle-with-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Elton John reveals he &#8216;can&#8217;t read, watch TV or see his boys play sports&#8217; as he opens up on &#8216;distressing&#8217; battle with blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/04\/04\/21\/96739999-14573163-The_legendary_singer_L_who_shares_sons_Zachary_14_and_Elijah_12_-a-116_1743797910920.jpg\" alt=\"Elton lives with his husband David Furnish, 62, and their sons, Zachary, 14, and Elijah, 12, who he joked have now swapped Eego and Star Wars toys for an 'all-consuming love of rap'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sir\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-4757fe70-118f-11f0-aa52-0d7b86377ad1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/elton-john\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Elton John<\/a><\/span> revealed he &#8216;can&#8217;t read, watch TV or see his boys play sports&#8217; as he opened up on his &#8216;distressing&#8217; battle with blindness on Friday.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-14573163\/Sir-Elton-John-watch-TV-boys-sports-blindness.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; Sir\u00a0Elton John revealed he &#8216;can&#8217;t read, watch TV or see his boys play sports&#8217; as he opened up on his &#8216;distressing&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Elton-John.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74133,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74131\/revisions\/74133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}