{"id":98275,"date":"2016-04-06T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98275"},"modified":"2016-04-06T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:34:46","slug":"country-entertainer-merle-haggard-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98275","title":{"rendered":"Country entertainer, Merle Haggard, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HaggardMerle1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98286\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HaggardMerle1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"HaggardMerle1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HaggardMerle1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HaggardMerle1-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HaggardMerle1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) &#8211; Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as &#8220;Okie From Muskogee&#8221; and &#8220;Sing Me Back Home,&#8221; died Wednesday at 79, on his birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Haggard&#8217;s manager, Frank Mull, said the country icon died in Palo Cedro, California, of pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>A masterful guitarist, fiddler and songwriter as well as singer, the Country Music Hall of Famer recorded for more than 40 years, releasing dozens of albums and No. 1 hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) &#8211; Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as &#8220;Okie From Muskogee&#8221; and &#8220;Sing Me Back Home,&#8221; died Wednesday at 79, on his birthday. Haggard&#8217;s manager, Frank Mull, said the country icon died in Palo Cedro, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98275","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=98275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98289,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98275\/revisions\/98289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}