{"id":14752,"date":"2017-09-03T11:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T15:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=14752"},"modified":"2017-09-03T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T18:18:14","slug":"rip-walter-becker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=14752","title":{"rendered":"RIP Walter Becker&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn&#8230;this is one that I never wanted to do&#8230;Walter Becker, half of Steely Dan, died last night at the age of 67. I am still catching my breath about this&#8230;the Dan has been my favorite group for decades now and the plan was to see them for the 7th time in October here in GR. I knew there was something seriously wrong with him when he missed most of their concerts this year, and he didn&#8217;t look well at all in the youtube video of a concert from May&#8230;.but his death still hit me like a ton of bricks, to use the old cliche&#8230;.the Fagen\/Becker partnership has given us some of the best, snarky and literate music that was really hard to describe&#8230;but the themes of old guys and young women, of outsiders that really liked being outsiders, and yearning for pasts that never were still resonate to me&#8230;and always will&#8230;.RIP Walter&#8230;I&#8217;m going to miss you&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn&#8230;this is one that I never wanted to do&#8230;Walter Becker, half of Steely Dan, died last night at the age of 67. I am still catching my breath about this&#8230;the Dan has been my favorite group for decades now and the plan was to see them for the 7th time in October here in GR. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=14752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Walter Becker&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[11],"tags":[53,1731],"class_list":["post-14752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-steely-dan","tag-walter-becker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14754,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752\/revisions\/14754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}