{"id":12726,"date":"2018-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/neil-diamond-thanks-his-aussie-fans-for-amazing-reaction\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T00:00:00","slug":"neil-diamond-thanks-his-aussie-fans-for-amazing-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/neil-diamond-thanks-his-aussie-fans-for-amazing-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Diamond Thanks His Aussie Fans For Amazing Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Neil Diamond has thanked Aussie and NZ fans after discovering many of them are donating their ticket refunds to Parkinson\u2019s research.<\/h3>\n<p>Diamond announced on Tuesday he was immediately retiring from touring after being diagnosed with the disease.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWow, I\u2019ve received a bunch of messages from people in Aus &amp; NZ who are donating their ticket refunds to good causes,\u201d Diamond\u2019s wife Katie McNeil tweeted on Wednesday. \u201cParkinson\u2019s research, animal rescue groups, fire victim funds, etc. My heart is so full of joy to see this silver lining. Faith in humanity = restored. Thank you!\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neil chimed in with his own message of thanks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>&#8220;This makes me smile. Thank you. Thank you to everyone for your outpouring of love and support. It makes a difference.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow, I\u2019ve received a bunch of messages from people in Aus &amp; NZ who are donating their ticket refunds to good causes: Parkinson\u2019s research, animal rescue groups, fire victim funds, etc. My heart is so full of joy to see this silver lining. Faith in humanity = restored. Thank you!<\/p>&mdash; Katie Diamond (@KatieMcDiamond) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieMcDiamond\/status\/955848981522690048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This makes me smile. Thank you. Thank you to everyone for your outpouring of love and support. It makes a difference. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TLZAa69q1B\">https:\/\/t.co\/TLZAa69q1B<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Neil Diamond (@NeilDiamond) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeilDiamond\/status\/955885442209140743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Diamond has thanked Aussie and NZ fans after discovering many of them are donating their ticket refunds to Parkinson\u2019s research. Diamond announced on Tuesday he was immediately retiring from touring after being diagnosed with the disease. \u201cWow, I\u2019ve received a bunch of messages from people in Aus &amp; NZ who are donating their ticket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Neil Diamond Thanks His Aussie Fans For Amazing Reaction - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/neil-diamond-thanks-his-aussie-fans-for-amazing-reaction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neil Diamond Thanks His Aussie Fans For Amazing Reaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Neil Diamond has thanked Aussie and NZ fans after discovering many of them are donating their ticket refunds to Parkinson\u2019s research. 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