{"id":120091,"date":"2017-04-21T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120091"},"modified":"2017-04-21T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:22:46","slug":"main-ingredient-singer-cuba-gooding-sr-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120091","title":{"rendered":"Main Ingredient singer, Cuba Gooding, Sr., passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-120109\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GoodingSr.jpg4_-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GoodingSr.jpg4_-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GoodingSr.jpg4_-121x175.jpg 121w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GoodingSr.jpg4_.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Cuba Gooding Sr. was found dead in his car in Los Angeles, according to ABC. He was 72 .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>The soul singer was reportedly found slumped over inside his car in Woodland Hills, Calif. at 12:58 p.m. on Thursday, but he could not be resuscitated by CPR. A spokesperson with the Los Angeles Fire Department would not confirm Gooding Sr&#8217;s identity, but confirmed to Variety that they responded to a call on Ventura Blvd. and determined the death of an adult male at that same time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>The 72-year-old was most famous for his 1972 hit &#8220;Everybody Plays the Fool,&#8221; as the lead singer of the band The Main Ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>But he may best be known as the father of his namesake, Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr., as well as three other children.<\/p>\n<p>ABC says that police are still investigating the cause of death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Cuba Gooding Sr. was found dead in his car in Los Angeles, according to ABC. He was 72 . The soul singer was reportedly found slumped over inside his car in Woodland Hills, Calif. at 12:58 p.m. on Thursday, but he could not be resuscitated by CPR. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120110,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120091\/revisions\/120110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}