{"id":237,"date":"2002-12-08T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2002-12-09T00:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=237"},"modified":"2002-12-08T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2002-12-09T00:15:58","slug":"the-day-the-music-nearly-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"The Day the Music Nearly Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/\">Megan &#8220;Jane Galt&#8221; McArdle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleak.blogspot.com\/\">Ken &#8220;Illuminated Donkey&#8221; Goldstein<\/a> and I, crossing Broadway without looking after a <a href=\"http:\/\/paulfrankenstein.org\/\">Paul Frankenstein<\/a>-sponsored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/blog\/archives\/001550.html\">poker game<\/a>, were nearly mown down by oncoming traffic, and it got me thinking: suppose we had all bit it? What would the magnitude of the loss be to the blogging community? <\/p>\n<p>A. February 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died (Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. &#8220;Big Bopper&#8221; Richardson)<br \/>\nB. October 20, 1977: This Bird It Will Not Change (Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines)<br \/>\nC. March 5, 1963: Sweet Dreams Baby (Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins)<\/p>\n<p>Patsy Cline was and is internationally renowned. Copas and Hawkins are known for dying in a plane crash with Patsy Cline. <em>Exactly.<\/em> Other suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Megan &#8220;Jane Galt&#8221; McArdle, Ken &#8220;Illuminated Donkey&#8221; Goldstein and I, crossing Broadway without looking after a Paul Frankenstein-sponsored poker game, were nearly mown down by oncoming traffic, and it got me thinking: suppose we had all bit it? What would the magnitude of the loss be to the blogging community? A. February 3, <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=237' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}