{"id":99246,"date":"2016-04-21T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=99246"},"modified":"2016-04-21T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T19:12:39","slug":"iconic-musician-prince-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=99246","title":{"rendered":"Iconic musician Prince dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PrinceNelson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-99249\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-99249\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PrinceNelson-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"PrinceNelson\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PrinceNelson-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PrinceNelson-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PrinceNelson.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pop music superstar Prince has been found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHis publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, told The Associated Press the music icon was found dead at his home Thursday in Chanhassen.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The singer, songwriter, arranger and instrumentalist was widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive musicians of his era, drawing upon influences ranging from James Brown to the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix. His hits included &#8220;Little Red Corvette,&#8221; &#8221;Let&#8217;s Go Crazy&#8221; and &#8220;When Doves Cry.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Minneapolis native broke through in the late 1970s with the hits &#8220;Wanna Be Your Lover&#8221; and soared over the following decade with such albums as &#8220;1999&#8221; and &#8220;Purple Rain.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The title song from &#8220;1999&#8221; includes one of the most widely quoted refrains of popular culture: &#8220;Tonight I&#8217;m gonna party like it&#8217;s 1999.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Pop music superstar Prince has been found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis. \u00a0 His publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, told The Associated Press the music icon was found dead at his home Thursday in Chanhassen. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The singer, songwriter, arranger and instrumentalist was widely acclaimed as one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99246","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\/99246","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=99246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99256,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99246\/revisions\/99256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}