{"id":21730,"date":"2014-06-20T09:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T13:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21730"},"modified":"2014-06-20T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T13:26:05","slug":"rip-gerry-goffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-gerry-goffin\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Gerry Goffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21731\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21731\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gerry-Goffin-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Gerry Goffin.\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gerry-Goffin-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gerry-Goffin.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerry Goffin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you surely know by now, lyricist <strong>Gerry Goffin<\/strong>, half of the legendary Brill Building songwriting team with ex-wife Carole King, <a title=\"Gerry Goffin obit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/20\/arts\/music\/gerry-goffin-prolific-pop-songwriter-is-dead-at-75.html\" target=\"_blank\">died yesterday at 75 years old<\/a>. I&#8217;ve got nothing profound to say other than the obvious things: he wrote many excellent songs, 75 is too young to die, he was a <em>great<\/em>&#8230;man. I especially love &#8220;Up on the Roof,&#8221; which captures the sound of the city the way rock &#8216;n roll songs rarely do these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you surely know by now, lyricist Gerry Goffin, half of the legendary Brill Building songwriting team with ex-wife Carole King, died yesterday at 75 years old. I&#8217;ve got nothing profound to say other than the obvious things: he wrote many excellent songs, 75 is too young to die, he was a great&#8230;man. I especially <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-gerry-goffin\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}