{"id":19621,"date":"2013-07-22T22:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19621"},"modified":"2013-07-22T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:25:13","slug":"r-i-p-faye-hunter-of-lets-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/r-i-p-faye-hunter-of-lets-active\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Faye Hunter of Let&#8217;s Active"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Sorry I did not see this post waiting to be launched until now. &#8211; Mr. Moderator.]<\/em><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AvuetnVoxIs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s Active<\/strong> was a fun power pop band that I&#8217;ve always enjoyed, so I was sorry to hear about the death of their first bassist, <strong>Faye Hunter<\/strong>. <a title=\"Obit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2013\/07\/21\/3046951\/faye-hunter-part-of-80s-band-lets.html\" target=\"_blank\">The local paper says it&#8217;s an apparent suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think Faye had left the band by then, but one of the first shows I went to with my\u00a0wife in DC was Let&#8217;s Active at the old 9:30 Club in 1989. We started\u00a0the night out at a nearby\u00a0performance art restaurant\/bar place called D.C. Space. Our waiteress at\u00a0D.C. Space\u00a0said Let&#8217;s Active would cap off &#8220;a perfect evening&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; which it was. R.I.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Sorry I did not see this post waiting to be launched until now. &#8211; Mr. Moderator.] Let&#8217;s Active was a fun power pop band that I&#8217;ve always enjoyed, so I was sorry to hear about the death of their first bassist, Faye Hunter. The local paper says it&#8217;s an apparent suicide. I think Faye had <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/r-i-p-faye-hunter-of-lets-active\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621"}],"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\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}