{"id":208719,"date":"2026-02-05T05:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208719"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:22:47","slug":"taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208719","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese hit songwriter Yuan Wei-jen dies aged 57 after battling illness for 8 years, Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese songwriter-producer Yuan Wei-jen, also known as John Yuan, died yesterday (Feb 2) aged 57. According to media reports, his time of death was around 10am and his body has been taken home by his family for funeral arrangements. His sister made a statement on behalf of their family: &#8221; Xiao Pang (Wei-jen&#8217;s nickname) chose<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/entertainment\/taiwanese-hit-songwriter-john-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese songwriter-producer Yuan Wei-jen, also known as John Yuan, died yesterday (Feb 2) aged 57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208719-taiwanese-hit-songwriter-yuan-wei-jen-dies-aged-57-after-battling-illness-for-8-years-ente6984293ee3c54-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Entertainment<\/a>","tag_info":"Entertainment","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}