{"id":13960,"date":"2004-08-29T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/29\/laura-branigan-dead-at-47\/"},"modified":"2004-08-29T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T16:02:00","slug":"laura-branigan-dead-at-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/29\/laura-branigan-dead-at-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Branigan Dead At 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/08\/29\/obit.branigan.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Laura Branigan\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/laurabranigan_selfcontrol.jpg\" \/><\/a><i>CNN<\/i> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/08\/29\/obit.branigan.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Branigan died last Thursday<\/a> of a brain aneurysm at the age of 47.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;token=ADFEAEE47B17D346A87620C9933648E9B061FB02D10DF59C193C7941D5BB361ADC112EAE0EACC6CFB1FA71F878AEF52BA7500FD6DA9F2B&amp;sql=11:jifyxqw5ldde\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Branigan<\/a> was best known for her musical career during the 1980&rsquo;s, especially for hits like &ldquo;Gloria,&rdquo; &ldquo;Self Control,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Power Of Love.&rdquo;  Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurabranigan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a> has a section devoted to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurabranigan.com\/Lauras_Passing.htm\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> and is a good resource for information on her life and career.  I was very shocked to hear about this; such an untimely death is all the more tragic&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109379533064884583?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that Laura Branigan died last Thursday of a brain aneurysm at the age of 47. Laura Branigan was best known for her musical career during the 1980&rsquo;s, especially for hits like &ldquo;Gloria,&rdquo; &ldquo;Self Control,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Power Of Love.&rdquo; Her official website has a section devoted to her passing and is a good &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/29\/laura-branigan-dead-at-47\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laura Branigan Dead At 47&#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-13960","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\/13960","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=13960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}