{"id":240841,"date":"2021-12-10T15:01:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=240841"},"modified":"2021-12-13T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:33:13","slug":"monkees-singer-michael-nesmith-passes-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=240841","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Monkees&#8221; Singer Michael Nesmith passes at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-240844\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nesmith-Michael.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nesmith-Michael.jpg 275w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nesmith-Michael-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Michael Nesmith, the wool-hatted, guitar-strumming member of the 1960s, made-for-television rock band The Monkees, has died at 78. His family says Nesmith died Friday of natural causes. Nesmith was a struggling singer-songwriter in 1966 when he saw a trade-publication ad seeking \u201cfour insane boys\u201d for a zany TV show about a rock band modeled after the Beatles. He quickly became Mike, the show\u2019s serious but often naive lead guitarist. After the show ended, Nesmith went on to several successful careers. He recorded more than a dozen non-Monkees albums, wrote several books and dozens of songs. He also founded two entertainment companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Michael Nesmith, the wool-hatted, guitar-strumming member of the 1960s, made-for-television rock band The Monkees, has died at 78. His family says Nesmith died Friday of natural causes. Nesmith was a struggling singer-songwriter in 1966 when he saw a trade-publication ad seeking \u201cfour insane boys\u201d for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240841","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=240841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241006,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240841\/revisions\/241006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}