{"id":6858,"date":"2011-05-28T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2011-05-28T08:45:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T15:45:01","slug":"gil-scott-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/28\/gil-scott-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Scott-Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/29\/arts\/music\/gil-scott-heron-voice-of-black-culture-dies-at-62.html\">Gil Scott-Heron has died<\/a> at 62.  I could mention how his spoken-word recordings were a noted precursor of hip-hop, but then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/yes-sweetie-mommys-heard-of-gil-scottheron,11141\/\">the <em>Onion<\/em> would make fun of me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Gil Scott-Heron - &amp;#039;Where Did The Night Go&amp;#039;\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_gbZVdj_d62M\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/gbZVdj_d62M\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gbZVdj_d62M\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M13S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2009-11-12T12:28:02Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_gbZVdj_d62M\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/gbZVdj_d62M\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Gil Scott-Heron - &#039;Where Did The Night Go&#039;<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gbZVdj_d62M\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/gbZVdj_d62M\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Scott-Heron - &amp;#039;Where Did The Night Go&amp;#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Subscribe to XL Recordings on YouTube: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3RPMfmg The video for &#039;Where Did The Night Go&#039; by Gil Scott-Heron. Taken from the forthcoming album &#039;I&#039;m New Here&#039; released on XL Recordings in February 2010. #GilScottHeron #WhereDidTheNightGo #XLRecordings XL Now \u25ba https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Ctrx6A XL Then \u25ba https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ryYxUv XL Artist Playlists \u25ba https:\/\/bit.ly\/3CkUzUK\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gil Scott-Heron has died at 62. I could mention how his spoken-word recordings were a noted precursor of hip-hop, but then the Onion would make fun of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858","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=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}