{"id":260609,"date":"2022-10-28T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=260609"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:09:51","slug":"rock-n-roll-pioneer-jerry-lee-lewis-passes-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=260609","title":{"rendered":"Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis Passes  87"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The untamable and often outrageous rock \u2018n\u2019 roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has died at 87. Spokesperson Zach Furman said Lewis died Friday morning at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. Of all the greats to emerge in the 1950s after Elvis Presley, no one personified every parent\u2019s fear of the dangers of rock \u2019n roll more than Lewis, with his leering tenor and cocky sneer. His talent, energy and ego collided into into piano-pumping perfection on hits like \u201cGreat Balls of Fire\u201d and \u201cWhole Lotta Shakin\u2019 Goin\u2019 On.\u201d Lewis&#8217; infamous private life included a marriage to his 12- or 13-year-old cousin who later alleged physical and mental cruelty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The untamable and often outrageous rock \u2018n\u2019 roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has died at 87. Spokesperson Zach Furman said Lewis died Friday morning at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. Of all the greats to emerge in the 1950s after Elvis Presley, no one personified every parent\u2019s fear of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":260610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260609","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=260609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260611,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260609\/revisions\/260611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}