{"id":15796,"date":"2012-10-03T18:40:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15796"},"modified":"2012-10-04T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:14:56","slug":"rip-r-b-greaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-r-b-greaves\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP R. B. Greaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9Y0x1jLkLg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I noticed a post by Townsman Buskirk that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/03\/arts\/music\/r-b-greaves-of-take-a-letter-maria-fame-dies-at-68.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>R. B. Greaves<\/strong> has gone on to his ultimate reward<\/a>.  I honestly don&#8217;t know anything by him except the most excellent &#8220;Take a Letter Maria,&#8221; a song covered by RTH All-Stars Nixon&#8217;s Head (whose version, by the way, is preferred by my 5 year old, no disrespect to the recently departed intended).  Based on that one song alone, I suggest that he was a GREAT man.<\/p>\n<p><em>NEXT: Rock Town Hall&#8217;s Official Eulogy&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed a post by Townsman Buskirk that R. B. Greaves has gone on to his ultimate reward. I honestly don&#8217;t know anything by him except the most excellent &#8220;Take a Letter Maria,&#8221; a song covered by RTH All-Stars Nixon&#8217;s Head (whose version, by the way, is preferred by my 5 year old, no disrespect <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-r-b-greaves\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}