{"id":5641,"date":"2011-02-03T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T02:20:41","slug":"rock-oliday-the-day-the-music-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-oliday-the-day-the-music-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock-oliday: The Day the Music Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/thedaythemusic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5648\" title=\"thedaythemusic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/thedaythemusic-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/thedaythemusic-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/thedaythemusic.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/17-It-Doesnt-Matter-Anymore.mp3|titles=Buddy Holly, &#8220;It Doesn&#8217;t Matter Anymore&#8221;]\n<p>For those of you who may have lost track of the rock calendar today is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-town-hall-celebrates-the-day-the-mu\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Day the Music Died<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/it-s-not-a-rock-lbr-g-it-s-a-rock-oliday\/\" target=\"_blank\">rock-oliday<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>in which we commemorate and celebrate the legacies of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-big-bopper-will-be-missed\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Big Bopper<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/musicdied120x75.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/musicdied120x75.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/musicdied120x75.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/musicdied120x75.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>2011 marks the 52nd\u2014anniversary seems like the wrong word, but you know what I mean\u2014of rock &#8216;n roll&#8217;s loss.<\/p>\n<p>Rock Town Hall encourages you to take a few minutes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/street-fleet-lemghow-do-you-plan-to-cele\/\" target=\"_blank\">reflection<\/a> on this occasion; to spin some Buddy, some Ritchie, and some Bopper; and to smash a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/title-9\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don McLean&#8217;s &#8220;American Pie.&#8221;<\/a> You can revisit our historic 2009 celebration of the 50th anniversary of their death <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/tag\/the-day-the-music-died\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/17-It-Doesnt-Matter-Anymore.mp3|titles=Buddy Holly, &#8220;It Doesn&#8217;t Matter Anymore&#8221;] For those of you who may have lost track of the rock calendar today is The Day the Music Died, a rock-oliday in which we commemorate and celebrate the legacies of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and especially the Big Bopper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[578,148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641"}],"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=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}