{"id":1303,"date":"2004-06-10T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/the-passing-of-a-legend\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T22:39:00","slug":"the-passing-of-a-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/the-passing-of-a-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"The passing of a legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as &#8220;What&apos;d I Say&#8221; and heartfelt ballads like &#8220;Georgia on My Mind,&#8221; died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73.<\/p>\n<p>Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, Charles spent his life shattering any notion of musical boundaries and defying easy definition. A gifted pianist and saxophonist, he dabbled in country, jazz, big band and blues, and put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hardscrabble childhood in the segregated South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as &#8220;What&apos;d I Say&#8221; and heartfelt ballads like &#8220;Georgia on My Mind,&#8221; died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73. Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, Charles spent his life shattering any notion of musical boundaries and defying easy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/the-passing-of-a-legend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The passing of a legend&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-l1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}