{"id":2989,"date":"2011-05-27T20:40:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T03:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/05\/gil-scott-heron-gone\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T20:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T03:41:49","slug":"gil-scott-heron-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/27\/gil-scott-heron-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Scott-Heron Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20110527\/ENT04\/110527065\/Musician-poet-Gil-Scott-Heron-dies\" target=\"_blank\">from Detroit Free Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Musician, poet Gil Scott-Heron dies<\/h1>\n<p>Poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron died Friday at age 62 in New York, NPR reported, citing his book publisher.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_b2F-XX0Ol0\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He is best known for his spoken-word piece \u201cThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised,\u201d but he also recorded the seminal \u201cWe Almost Lost Detroit.\u201d He is considered a progenitor of hip-hop and inspired a generation of rappers with his no-nonsense street poetry. Rapper Kanye West has sampled Scott-Heron&#8217;s voice.A cause of death was not immediately reported.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20110527\/ENT04\/110527065\/Musician-poet-Gil-Scott-Heron-dies\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at freep.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Detroit Free Press Musician, poet Gil Scott-Heron dies Poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron died Friday at age 62 in New York, NPR reported, citing his book publisher. He is best known for his spoken-word piece \u201cThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised,\u201d but he also recorded the seminal \u201cWe Almost Lost Detroit.\u201d He is considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}