{"id":6763,"date":"2012-05-17T22:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2012-05-17T22:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T02:16:43","slug":"donna-summer-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6763","title":{"rendered":"Donna Summer  R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z051712donna_summer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Donna Summer<\/strong> passed away today after an extended battle with lung cancer.\u00a0 <strong>Ms. Summer<\/strong> was <strong>63<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Donna Summer<\/strong> was known as the <strong><em>Queen of Disco<\/em><\/strong> and rightly so.\u00a0 She rose to fame in the <strong>1970&#8217;s<\/strong> and helped lead a generation into the<strong> disco<\/strong> craze.\u00a0 In 1<strong>975<\/strong>, she co-wrote and performed her first hit, Love to Love You Baby which shot up the charts.\u00a0 Hit after hit followed.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Ms. Summer<\/strong> had <strong>19 number one hits<\/strong> on the dance charts.\u00a0 She was the <strong>first female singer<\/strong> to have <strong>four number one singles<\/strong> in a <strong>13 month period<\/strong>, had t<strong>hree consecutive double LPs<\/strong> to hit <strong>#1 on the charts<\/strong>, and she<strong> won five Grammys<\/strong>. <strong>Donna Summer&#8217;s<\/strong> music helped define the<strong> Disco<\/strong> era. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I always liked <strong>Donna Summer&#8217;s<\/strong> music.\u00a0 I can remember being in <strong>Camelot Music<\/strong> the first time I heard her sing, <em><strong>Love to Love You, Baby<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The song came on and she started singing and I was hooked&#8230; along with a generation of music lovers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to <strong>Donna Summer&#8217;s<\/strong> family, friends and fans.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Summer passed away today after an extended battle with lung cancer.\u00a0 Ms. Summer was 63.\u00a0 Donna Summer was known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,64,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-music","category-rip","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","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=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}