{"id":1362,"date":"2016-06-24T20:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2016-06-24T20:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T02:08:54","slug":"rip-ralph-stanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"RIP Ralph Stanley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ralph Stanley, one of the bluegrass pioneers and a hell of a banjo player, <a href=\"http:\/\/bluegrasstoday.com\/ralph-stanley-passes\/\">died yesterday at the age of 89<\/a>. I had a few LPs of his music, but I don&#8217;t have them anymore, and the only music of his I have on CD is the song everyone is mentioning today: <em>Oh, Death<\/em>, from the <em>Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2xmRWj7gJEU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For comparison, the first performance of that song that I heard was performed by Doc Boggs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KIYNoH99Guc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ralph Stanley, one of the bluegrass pioneers and a hell of a banjo player, died yesterday at the age of 89. I had a few LPs of his music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}