{"id":67714,"date":"2018-08-17T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67714"},"modified":"2018-08-17T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:25:39","slug":"aretha-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67714","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aretha Franklin passed away yesterday.\u00a0 She was 78.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2018\/08\/16\/aretha-franklin-dies\/309137002\/\">Detroit Free Press obit is uncommonly excellent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first real exposure to Franklin I ever got, growing up in the middle of country-western country, was working at my first radio job.\u00a0 Where I heard &#8220;Respect&#8221; for the first time &#8211; and felt a chill that the human voice could do&#8230;that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EcGjZHvD5q4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My favorite is still &#8220;I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Loved You).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dzr1ekZyOIA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But perhaps my ultimate testimonial?\u00a0 When my oldest was born, &#8220;Aretha&#8221; was on the short list of names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aretha Franklin passed away yesterday.\u00a0 She was 78. This Detroit Free Press obit is uncommonly excellent. The first real exposure to Franklin I ever got, growing up in the middle of country-western country, was working at my first radio job.\u00a0 Where I heard &#8220;Respect&#8221; for the first time &#8211; and felt a chill that the [&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-67714","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\/67714","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=67714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67722,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67714\/revisions\/67722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}