{"id":14658,"date":"2003-08-11T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-11T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/11\/gregory-hines-dead-at-57\/"},"modified":"2003-08-11T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-11T11:12:00","slug":"gregory-hines-dead-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/11\/gregory-hines-dead-at-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Hines Dead At 57 :-("},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/08\/10\/hines.obit.ap\/index.html\" title=\"Gregory Hines with Billy Crystal in 'Running Scared'\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Gregory Hines in Running Scared\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/gregoryhines_runningscared.jpg\" \/><\/a><i>CNN<\/i> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/08\/10\/hines.obit.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory Hines died on Saturday of cancer<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Hines,+Gregory\" target=\"_blank\">Hines<\/a> was renowned as a tap dancer, musician, and actor, winning a Tony Award in 1993 for the musical &ldquo;Jelly&rsquo;s Last Jam,&rdquo; and appearing in numerous musicals, movies, and TV shows, including <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0090319\" target=\"_blank\"><i>White Nights<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0091875\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Running Scared<\/i><\/a>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0098442\" target=\"_blank\">Tap<\/a><\/i>, and <i>Will and Grace<\/i>.  I am very saddened by this loss, especially because I didn&rsquo;t even know that he was battling cancer.  This is a sad day indeed&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106060033427929829?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that Gregory Hines died on Saturday of cancer. Hines was renowned as a tap dancer, musician, and actor, winning a Tony Award in 1993 for the musical &ldquo;Jelly&rsquo;s Last Jam,&rdquo; and appearing in numerous musicals, movies, and TV shows, including White Nights, Running Scared, Tap, and Will and Grace. I am very saddened &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/11\/gregory-hines-dead-at-57\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gregory Hines Dead At 57 :-(&#8220;<\/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-14658","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\/14658","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=14658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}