{"id":905,"date":"2010-02-04T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2010-02-04T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:06:13","slug":"february-3-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/february-3-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"February 3, 1959&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know <strong>February 3<\/strong> was yesterday, but I thought <strong>Sunn<\/strong> might post this as he is our official <strong>MR Rock Cornier<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;  <strong>February 3, 1959<\/strong> has come to be known as <em>&#8220;the day the music died&#8221;<\/em>, and, someone <em>&#8220;drove their Chevy to the Levy&#8221;<\/em> or something like that&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>It was the day <strong>Buddy Holly<\/strong>, <strong>Richie Vallens<\/strong>, and the <strong>Big Bopper<\/strong> died in a small plane crash in <strong>Iowa<\/strong>&#8230;..  Holly is looked upon as one of the founding fathers of <em>Rock and Roll<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;  He was from <strong>Lubbock, Texas<\/strong> and he had just really made the big time&#8230;..  The irony of the tragic accident is that <strong>Buddy<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t supposed to be on the plane&#8230;..  He had a cold and his bass player at that time, <strong>Waylon Jennings<\/strong> (someone you may have heard of) gave up his seat on the plane to <strong>Buddy<\/strong>&#8230;..   <em>Country music<\/em> took a giant leap that day, although, it would be a few years before <strong>Waylon<\/strong> hit it big&#8230;.  Life is strange and weird for the most part&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know February 3 was yesterday, but I thought Sunn might post this as he is our official MR Rock Cornier&#8230;&#8230; February 3, 1959 has come to be known as &#8220;the day the music died&#8221;, and, someone &#8220;drove their Chevy to the Levy&#8221; or something like that&#8230;.. It was the day Buddy Holly, Richie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}