{"id":1938,"date":"2008-08-10T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2014-12-26T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T12:27:23","slug":"isaac-hayes-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Isaac Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SJ9qixu4WuI\/AAAAAAAABgE\/KdPw9fd-0uU\/s1600-h\/z081008isaac_hayes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233018437725870818\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SJ9qixu4WuI\/AAAAAAAABgE\/KdPw9fd-0uU\/s400\/z081008isaac_hayes.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Isaac Hayes<\/span> died today at the age of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">65<\/span>. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The multi-talented <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hayes<\/span>, who was a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">self-taught songwriter, singer, record producer, actor<\/span> and more, will be missed by fans of all ages. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I first discovered <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Isaac Hayes<\/span> thanks to his <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Academy Award<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Grammy<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">winning theme song<\/span> for the motion picture <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Shaft.&#8221;<\/span> I&#8217;ve never met a person who didn&#8217;t like THAT song. <span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"> <span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I<\/span><\/span>f the theme from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Shaft&#8221; <\/span>was all that he ever did, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Isaac Hayes<\/span> would have left his mark on popular culture. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hayes <\/span>went on to produce more albums as well as work on the soundtracks of dozens of movies.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I first saw <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Isaac Hayes<\/span> the actor guest starring on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The Rockford Files&#8221;<\/span> as ex-con <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gandolph Fitch<\/span>. He was excellent in the role and who can forget him repeatedly calling J<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ames Garner&#8217;s Rockford<\/span> character<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> &#8220;Rockfish&#8221;<\/span>? <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hayes<\/span> reprised the role three different times. My next memory of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Isaac Hayes<\/span> the actor, is in the cult classic, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">John Carpenter&#8217;s &#8220;Escape from New York&#8221; <\/span>where he played the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Duke of New York<\/span>. The role was tailor made for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hayes<\/span>. Younger fans probably know<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Isaac Hayes<\/span> best as the voice of<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> &#8220;The Chef&#8221; <\/span>on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;South Park.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Isaac Hayes<\/span> will be missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Hayes died today at the age of 65. \u00a0The multi-talented Hayes, who was a self-taught songwriter, singer, record producer,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11462,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/11462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}