{"id":11,"date":"2004-06-10T18:26:51","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=11"},"modified":"2004-06-11T00:37:54","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T04:37:54","slug":"ray-charles-1930-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Ray Charles:  1930-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/06\/10\/obit.ray.charles.ap\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/images\/rcharles.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ray Charles\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to mourn the passing of Ray Charles a lot more than I am<br \/>\n  going to think about Ronald Reagan. You can contribute so much more to this<br \/>\n  world by making someone smile, than you can by delegating, posturing and politicking.<br \/>\n  The human condition is about feeling, and about seeking joy.. not about hard-balling<br \/>\n  with other dignitaries who have lost their way and are concerned about missles, national security<br \/>\n  and capitalism vs. communism. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can you guess who I think is more deserving of a state funeral?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Im going to mourn the passing of Ray Charles a lot more than I am going to think about Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}