{"id":41,"date":"2005-06-17T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/oscar-brown-jr\/"},"modified":"2005-06-17T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T15:05:00","slug":"oscar-brown-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/17\/oscar-brown-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Brown Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just in April that I posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2005_04_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#110368725399280741\">Oscar Brown Jr<\/a>, the soulful singer and songwriter who was also something of a social activist.  Somehow I missed the news that he just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/features\/40635.html\">passed away<\/a> on May 31st. On the day I wrote about him, he was giving a show here in Chicago, his hometown; now I&#8217;ll never have then chance to see him perform live. A <a href=\"http:\/\/jazztimes.com\/columns_and_features\/news\/detail.cfm?article=10463\">service<\/a> will be held on June 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just in April that I posted about Oscar Brown Jr, the soulful singer and songwriter who was also something of a social activist. Somehow I missed the news that he just passed away on May 31st. On the day I wrote about him, he was giving a show here in Chicago, his hometown; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}