{"id":245,"date":"2006-11-28T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:02:21","slug":"h-bomb-ferguson-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2006\/11\/28\/h-bomb-ferguson-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"H-Bomb Ferguson Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#993399;\"><strong>H-Bomb Ferguson<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#993399;\">1929 &#8211; 2006<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.fi\/images\/h-bomb1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.fi\/images\/h-bomb1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"color:#000099;\"><strong>On Sunday, November 26th, we lost one of the great unsung blues shouters when Robert &#8220;H-Bomb&#8221; Ferguson died at the age of 77.  He died at Hospice of Cincinnati of complications from emphysema and cardiopulmonary disease.  He made his best records for the NJ-based Savoy label during the early 1950s.  He had a classic blue shouting style, similar to Wynonie &#8220;Mr. Blues&#8221; Harris and he will be greatly missed.  <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><strong>-MTC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-Bomb Ferguson 1929 &#8211; 2006 On Sunday, November 26th, we lost one of the great unsung blues shouters when Robert &#8220;H-Bomb&#8221; Ferguson died at the age of 77. He died at Hospice of Cincinnati of complications from emphysema and cardiopulmonary disease. He made his best records for the NJ-based Savoy label during the early 1950s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-i-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}