{"id":209772,"date":"2020-10-06T22:51:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T03:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209772"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:44:14","slug":"singer-johnny-nash-passes-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209772","title":{"rendered":"Singer Johnny Nash passes, 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NashJohnny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-209773\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NashJohnny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>(AP)\u00a0 The writer, singer and producer of the classic \u201cI Can See Clearly Now\u201d has died. Johnny Nash&#8217;s son says his father died Tuesday at his home in Houston of natural causes at 80. Nash was a Houston-born artist who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to chart-topping status with \u201cI Can See Clearly Now.\u201d Released in 1972, the tune was covered by artists ranging from Ray Charles and Donny Osmond to Soul Asylum and Jimmy Cliff, whose version was featured in the 1993 movie \u201cCool Runnings.\u201d It also turned up in the film \u201cThelma and Louise,\u201d and a Windex commercial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 The writer, singer and producer of the classic \u201cI Can See Clearly Now\u201d has died. Johnny Nash&#8217;s son says his father died Tuesday at his home in Houston of natural causes at 80. Nash was a Houston-born artist who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to chart-topping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209772","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\/209772","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=209772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209790,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209772\/revisions\/209790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}