{"id":11557,"date":"2008-08-11T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/issac-hayes-dead-at-age-65\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:20:00","slug":"issac-hayes-dead-at-age-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/issac-hayes-dead-at-age-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Issac Hayes Dead at Age 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/uploaded_images\/isaac-hayes-754507.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/uploaded_images\/isaac-hayes-754504.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I was very saddened to learn that music legend and actor Isaac Hayes was found dead today in his home outside Memphis.  Isaac Hayes&rsquo; influence on American music over the last 45 years is unmistakable.  This Pitchfork <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/news\/144529-rip-isaac-hayes-1942-2008\" target=\"_blank\">obituary<\/a> gives a great synopsis of his long career in the music industry.  Younger generations came to know him as the voice of Chef on South Park, but I hope that his talent as a performer, songwriter, producer, and composer will be remembered more fondly.<br \/>One of my favorite Isaac Hayes performances is his appearance at a 1972 Operation PUSH rally in LA 10 days after winning the Academy Award for Original Song for Theme from Shaft.  After an introduction by Jessie Jackson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x67jci_isaac-hayestheme-from-shaft-live-de_music\" target=\"_blank\">this is Isaac at his best<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have used &ldquo;Shaft&rdquo; as a nom-de-plume as guest contributor here at Drikoland since the beginning.  As a sign of respect to the memory of the man who&rsquo;s song has given John Shaft life far beyond what the film ever could, I am signing off as myself.   You will be missed Isaac!<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-439574552494917578?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very saddened to learn that music legend and actor Isaac Hayes was found dead today in his home outside Memphis. Isaac Hayes&rsquo; influence on American music over the last 45 years is unmistakable. This Pitchfork obituary gives a great synopsis of his long career in the music industry. Younger generations came to know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/issac-hayes-dead-at-age-65\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Issac Hayes Dead at Age 65&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}