{"id":28840,"date":"2022-01-21T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28840"},"modified":"2022-01-21T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:29:28","slug":"rip-meat-loaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28840","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Meat Loaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z012122rip_meat_loaf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, but who later changed his name to Michael, has died at the age of 74.&nbsp; No cause of death was announced.&nbsp; Although best known for his record-breaking best selling album <em>Bat Out of Hell<\/em>, Meat Loaf was also an accomplished actor.&nbsp; He appeared on Broadway, had notable roles in <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show,&nbsp; Black Dog<\/em> and <em>Fight Club<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meat Loaf&#8217;s musical career started right after high school when his bands opened for acts such as Van Morrison, Janis Joplin and The Who.&nbsp; For the next 50 plus years, Meat Loaf did what he loved best &#8211; entertaining.&nbsp; He alternated between touring, putting out new music and acting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a time when disco was king, <em>Bat Out of Hell<\/em> became an international best seller.&nbsp; It was an album that everyone knew about and most owned.&nbsp; It was odd that this guy who appeared in <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> could sing.&nbsp; And, boy, could he sing!&nbsp; It was always a pleasure to see Meat Loaf pop up in television and film roles.&nbsp; One of my favorites is <em>The Salton Sea<\/em> with Val Kilmer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Lee Aday&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, but who later changed his name to Michael, has died at the age of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[17,54,64,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840","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=28840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28842,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840\/revisions\/28842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}