{"id":209705,"date":"2020-10-06T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T20:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209705"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:44:43","slug":"eddie-van-halen-passes-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209705","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen passes at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-209706\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Van-Halen-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock\u2019s biggest groups, fueled the unmistakable grinding solo in Michael Jackson\u2019s hit \u201cBeat It\u201d and elevated him to the status of rock god, has died. He was 65. Van Halen, who had battled cancer, died Tuesday. A person close to Van Halen\u2019s family confirmed the rocker&#8217;s death. With his distinct solos, Van Halen fueled the ultimate California party band and helped knock disco off the charts starting in the late 1970s with his band\u2019s self-titled debut album and then with the blockbuster record \u201c1984.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock\u2019s biggest groups, fueled the unmistakable grinding solo in Michael Jackson\u2019s hit \u201cBeat It\u201d and elevated him to the status of rock god, has died. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209711,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209705\/revisions\/209711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}