{"id":138720,"date":"2026-07-12T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mcconnell-says-a-fall-led-to-his-hospitalization-breaking-weeks-of-silence-about-health-condition\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:39:22","slug":"mcconnell-says-a-fall-led-to-his-hospitalization-breaking-weeks-of-silence-about-health-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mcconnell-says-a-fall-led-to-his-hospitalization-breaking-weeks-of-silence-about-health-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell says a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking weeks of silence about health condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c0af1c17-e5b6-5533-b160-b6785260158f&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c0af1c17-e5b6-5533-b160-b6785260158f&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c0af1c17-e5b6-5533-b160-b6785260158f&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c0af1c17-e5b6-5533-b160-b6785260158f&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"FILE - Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at an event, Aug. 2, 2025, in Fancy Farm, Ky. (AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey, File)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">FILE &#8211; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at an event, Aug. 2, 2025, in Fancy Farm, Ky. (AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey, File)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">(AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey, File)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sen. Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounting speculation about the Kentucky Republican\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes following his hospitalization on June 14. McConnell\u2019s office for weeks provided little information, insisting only that he was \u201creceiving excellent care\u201d and recovering. As his hospital stay grew longer, speculation mounted about his condition. It grew so intense that Kentucky\u2019s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear took the extraordinary step of asking that McConnell update the public about his health in a \u201ctransparent manner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE &#8211; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at an event, Aug. 2, 2025, in Fancy Farm, Ky. (AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey, File)(AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey, File) WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sen. Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounting speculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-138720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138720"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=138720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}