{"id":256,"date":"2006-12-25T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T20:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/25\/james-brown\/"},"modified":"2006-12-25T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T20:48:32","slug":"james-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"James Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2006\/12\/25\/D8M7UJT80.html\">dead at 73<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Along with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and a handful of others, Brown was one of the major musical influences of the past 50 years. At least one generation idolized him, and sometimes openly copied him. His rapid- footed dancing inspired Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson among others. Songs such as David Bowies &#8220;Fame,&#8221; Princes &#8220;Kiss,&#8221; George Clintons &#8220;Atomic Dog&#8221; and Sly and the Family Stones &#8220;Sing a Simple Song&#8221; were clearly based on Browns rhythms and vocal style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was an innovator, he was an emancipator, he was an originator. Rap music, all that stuff came from James Brown,&#8221; entertainer Little Richard, a longtime friend of Browns, told MSNBC. &#8220;A great treasure is gone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sad icing on the sundae of a most dismal Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Brown dead at 73: Along with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and a handful of others, Brown was one of the major musical influences of the past 50 years. At least one generation idolized him, and sometimes openly copied him. His rapid- footed dancing inspired Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson among others. Songs such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}