{"id":228,"date":"2007-01-31T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=228"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:01:27","slug":"the-day-the-music-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/01\/31\/the-day-the-music-died\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day The Music Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/content.answers.com\/main\/content\/img\/webpics\/day_the_music_died.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/content.answers.com\/main\/content\/img\/webpics\/day_the_music_died.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong> February 3rd, 1959<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;The Day The Music Died&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">It was 48 years ago this week that we lost Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP &#8220;The Big Bopper&#8221; Richardson in a tragic plane crash near Clear Lake, IA. This date would become a defining day in music history. It was the first great tragedy of Rock n&#8217; Roll and it certainly wouldn&#8217;t be the last. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Friday, Feb 2nd, Matt The Cat will dedicate the show to these three great performers with plenty of music, soundbites and stories as we celebrate their fantastic careers. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Saturday, Feb 3rd, The 50s on 5 will feature special segments every hour honoring Buddy, Ritchie and JP. So tune in all day on The Day The Music Died to the 50s on 5. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 3rd, 1959 &#8220;The Day The Music Died&#8221; It was 48 years ago this week that we lost Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP &#8220;The Big Bopper&#8221; Richardson in a tragic plane crash near Clear Lake, IA. This date would become a defining day in music history. It was the first great tragedy of Rock [&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-228","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\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}