{"id":14125,"date":"2004-06-10T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/ray-charles-1930-2004\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T20:12:00","slug":"ray-charles-1930-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/ray-charles-1930-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Charles 1930-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/06\/10\/obit.charles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ray Charles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/raycharles.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raycharles.com\/bio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Charles<\/a> died today at the age of 73 surrounded by family and friends at his home in Beverly Hills. He was a pioneer in many styles of music, bringing traditionally black forms like soul, gospel, and R&amp;B into the homes of all Americans. He perfomed over 10,000 concerts in his 58-year career. The man and his music will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108689904752096120?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Charles died today at the age of 73 surrounded by family and friends at his home in Beverly Hills. He was a pioneer in many styles of music, bringing traditionally black forms like soul, gospel, and R&amp;B into the homes of all Americans. He perfomed over 10,000 concerts in his 58-year career. The man &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/ray-charles-1930-2004\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ray Charles 1930-2004&#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-14125","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\/14125","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=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}