{"id":12526,"date":"2006-06-26T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/claydes-charles-smith-dead-at-57\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T22:45:00","slug":"claydes-charles-smith-dead-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/claydes-charles-smith-dead-at-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Claydes Charles Smith Dead At 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CNN<\/i> reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/06\/23\/obit.smith.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Claydes Charles Smith, co-founder of Kool &amp; The Gang died last week<\/a> at the age of 57 due to a &ldquo;long illness.&rdquo;  &ldquo;Smith wrote the hits <i>Joanna<\/i> and <i>Take My Heart<\/i>, and was a co-writer of others, including <i>Celebration<\/i>, <i>Hollywood Swinging<\/i> and <i>Jungle Boogie<\/i>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/obituaries\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">obituaries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-115108319556060874?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reported that Claydes Charles Smith, co-founder of Kool &amp; The Gang died last week at the age of 57 due to a &ldquo;long illness.&rdquo; &ldquo;Smith wrote the hits Joanna and Take My Heart, and was a co-writer of others, including Celebration, Hollywood Swinging and Jungle Boogie.&rdquo; tags: 80s music obituaries<\/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-12526","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\/12526","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=12526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}