{"id":1059,"date":"2007-12-12T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:44:38","slug":"ike-turner-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ike-turner-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike Turner, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ike Turner died today.  Of his life, I say:  was there another artist whose reputed assholishness was so purely, inversely proportional to the wonderfulness of his music?<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ddvzkfe_CiU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>To the spirit of Ike Turner, I say:  thank you, and may you rest in peace, if that&#8217;s possible.  May God have mercy on your soul, as I would have Him have mercy on mine.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ike Turner died today. Of his life, I say: was there another artist whose reputed assholishness was so purely, inversely proportional to the wonderfulness of his music? To the spirit of Ike Turner, I say: thank you, and may you rest in peace, if that&#8217;s possible. May God have mercy on your soul, as I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ike-turner-r-i-p\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}