{"id":9439,"date":"2011-09-30T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2011-09-30T09:24:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:24:44","slug":"news-youve-probably-already-heard-sylvia-robinson-godmother-of-rap-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/news-youve-probably-already-heard-sylvia-robinson-godmother-of-rap-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"News You&#8217;ve Probably Already Heard: Sylvia Robinson, Godmother of Rap, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YlhCYC_TEFw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Sylvia Robinson<\/strong>, founder of pioneering rap label Sugar Hill Records and a recording\u00a0artist in her own right (&#8220;Love Is Strange,&#8221; as part of Mickey &amp; Sylvia, and her solo hit &#8220;Pillow Talk&#8221;), died yesterday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/30\/arts\/music\/sylvia-robinson-pioneering-producer-of-hip-hop-dies-at-75.html\" target=\"_blank\">You&#8217;ve probably heard this by now<\/a>. My wife told me all about it late last night. I was really busy yesterday and spent what little free time I had recounting the wonders of Major League Baseball&#8217;s final night of the regular season and analyzing the coming playoffs. For placing my attention on baseball and missing this story yesterday I am sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Sylvia Robinson was\u00a0one cool cat.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1fd9qP-sHbQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia Robinson, founder of pioneering rap label Sugar Hill Records and a recording\u00a0artist in her own right (&#8220;Love Is Strange,&#8221; as part of Mickey &amp; Sylvia, and her solo hit &#8220;Pillow Talk&#8221;), died yesterday. You&#8217;ve probably heard this by now. My wife told me all about it late last night. I was really busy yesterday <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/news-youve-probably-already-heard-sylvia-robinson-godmother-of-rap-dies\/' 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":[170,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439"}],"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=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}