{"id":120759,"date":"2021-03-21T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/texas-roadhouse-ceo-took-his-own-life-amid-unbearable-covid-19-related-symptoms-family-says"},"modified":"2021-03-21T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T19:22:35","slug":"texas-roadhouse-ceo-took-his-own-life-amid-unbearable-covid-19-related-symptoms-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/texas-roadhouse-ceo-took-his-own-life-amid-unbearable-covid-19-related-symptoms-family-says","title":{"rendered":"Texas Roadhouse CEO \u2018took his own life\u2019 amid \u2018unbearable\u2019 COVID-19-related symptoms, family says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/texas-roadhouse-ceo-took-his-own-life-amid-unbearable-covid-19-related-symptoms-family-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kent Taylor, the co-founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse Inc., has died from suicide, his family said, after suffering \u201cunbearable\u201d COVID-19-related symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor\u2019s family and the restaurant chain said in a statement to The Hill on Sunday that the business executive \u201ctook his own life this week\u201d after \u201ca battle with post-Covid related symptoms, including severe tinnitus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKent battled and fought hard like the former track champion that he was, but the suffering that greatly intensified in recent days became unbearable,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Taylor, the co-founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse Inc., has died from suicide, his family said, after suffering \u201cunbearable\u201d COVID-19-related symptoms. Taylor\u2019s family and the restaurant chain said in a statement to The Hill on Sunday that the business executive \u201ctook his own life this week\u201d after \u201ca battle with post-Covid related symptoms, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}