{"id":150,"date":"2008-01-30T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=150"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:52:14","slug":"the-day-the-music-died-49-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2008\/01\/30\/the-day-the-music-died-49-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day The Music Died&#8230;49 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#000099;\"><strong>The Day The Music Died<\/strong><br \/>February 3rd, 1959<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333399;\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billschulz.com\/winter_dance_party.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billschulz.com\/winter_dance_party.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The 50s on 5 commemorates the 49th anniversary of one of saddest events in rock n&#8217; roll history; the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens &#038; The Big Bopper. It was a stormy night near Clear Lake, IA when a small charted plane took off carrying the 3 stars, who had just performed as part of the Winter Dance Party tour. The plane crashed and for many this marked the end of the golden age of rock n&#8217; roll. This Sunday, February 3rd, the 50s will honor Buddy, Ritchie and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) with hourly tributes to the three. Sunday, all day, on the 50s on 5.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t my special tribute on the Night Prowl Show, this Friday, Feb. 1st from 7-11pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>Matt The Cat<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Day The Music DiedFebruary 3rd, 1959 The 50s on 5 commemorates the 49th anniversary of one of saddest events in rock n&#8217; roll history; the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens &#038; The Big Bopper. It was a stormy night near Clear Lake, IA when a small charted plane took off carrying the 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-night-prowl-show","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}