{"id":4868,"date":"2012-05-17T20:03:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T01:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2012-05-17T20:03:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T01:03:54","slug":"rock-and-roll-wil-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll wil never die…"},"content":{"rendered":"

But Donna Summer is dead – at age 63 of cancer.<\/p>\n

Virtually every radio station that has me on their mailing list sent an urgent “Breaking news!” alert telling me this important story.\u00a0 I can’t figure out why.\u00a0\u00a0 If she had died in a plane crash or was murdered in a home invasion, maybe – but all that happened today was someone turned off the respirator and she stopped breathing.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, Adam Yauch, one of \u00a0the founding members\u00a0of the Beastie Boys died of cancer at age 47 and got only brief mentions in the news, not a “BREAKING NEWS!!!!”\u00a0 flash.\u00a0\u00a0 I wonder what the difference is in the significance of the two stories…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But Donna Summer is dead – at age 63 of cancer. Virtually every radio station that has me on their mailing list sent an urgent “Breaking news!” alert telling me this important story.\u00a0 I can’t figure out why.\u00a0\u00a0 If she … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}