{"id":15918,"date":"2017-05-07T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15918"},"modified":"2017-05-07T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T00:21:08","slug":"obit-watch-may-7-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15918","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 7, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/02\/arts\/music\/bruce-hampton-70-jam-scene-patriarch-dies-after-collapsing-on-stage.html?referer=https:\/\/t.co\/JBu8dRM0bS?amp=1\">Bruce Hampton<\/a>, aka &#8220;Col. Bruce Hampton&#8221;, jam band guy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/02\/arts\/music\/bruce-hampton-70-jam-scene-patriarch-dies-after-collapsing-on-stage.html?referer=https:\/\/t.co\/JBu8dRM0bS?amp=1\">The Hampton Grease Band released an album on Columbia \u2014 Mr. Hampton liked to claim that it was one of the worst-selling albums in the label\u2019s history \u2014 and opened for the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers Band and other nationally known acts. It was also known for its twisted sense of humor, which included playing practical jokes.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually remember &#8220;Col. Bruce Hampton &amp; The Aquarium Rescue Unit&#8221;: not any of the songs off of it, but just the title. What can I say, it tickled my fancy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local-obituaries\/peter-flawn-former-university-texas-president-dead\/EVa3BbCb6Qe8EUbHfJEsXM\/\">Peter Flawn<\/a>, former president of the University of Texas. Among his many other accomplishments, he&#8217;s the guy who fired John Mackovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Hampton, aka &#8220;Col. Bruce Hampton&#8221;, jam band guy. The Hampton Grease Band released an album on Columbia \u2014 Mr. Hampton liked to claim that it was one of the worst-selling albums in the label\u2019s history \u2014 and opened for the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers Band and other nationally known acts. It was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15919,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions\/15919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}