{"id":4586,"date":"2023-07-25T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:35:47","slug":"voice-of-donnie-baker-dies-while-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/voice-of-donnie-baker-dies-while-on-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Donnie Baker dies while on tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DAYTON \u2014 Comedian and radio personality Ron Sexton, known to listeners of \u201cThe BOB &amp; TOM Show\u201d as \u201cDonnie Baker,\u201d has died at the age of 52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sexton\u2019s family announced his death Saturday morning in a post on\u00a0<strong>his official Facebook page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is with immense sadness that we let everyone know that Ron Sexton passed away yesterday. He was Donnie Baker to most of you, but Ron and Dad to us. Please respect our privacy at this time and pray for our family,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sexton passed away in Ohio on Friday while on tour with his stand-up comedy show.&nbsp; He was to appear at the Dayton Funny Bone Comedy Club this past weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron Sexton had appeared at several venues here in the area in recent years including in Portland and also here in Decatur for events sponsored by Rubber Road Comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cause of death has not been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTON \u2014 Comedian and radio personality Ron Sexton, known to listeners of \u201cThe BOB &amp; TOM Show\u201d as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/donnie-baker.png?fit=276%2C183&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}