{"id":178154,"date":"2019-02-21T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/21\/damn-peter-tork\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T23:22:00","slug":"damn-peter-tork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/21\/damn-peter-tork\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn, Peter Tork?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Monkees&#8217; bass player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/peter-tork-endearingly-offbeat-bassist-and-singer-in-the-monkees-dies-at-77\/2019\/02\/21\/479cf4ae-35ee-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html\">is dead at age 77<\/a>:<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Beatles, died Feb. 21. He was 77. <\/p>\n<p>The death was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PHTork1\/posts\/2532356650112369?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA0zSEX7cU15yBlw7PcmN0CfeObsd7oY9y1-KUxUyKfKiWpTe2pPyHH9azjj4bTasRVwP269jMMZKzaOfEAVn3IvM9nR_J1p62mWl1yrEK6aq3rWow0rlfzSBoqzkUWIr8XzEvH2npJmCCMquAOeyDs-GVRRVfdvOxEa17Gkky7qbM9SDy2T-ZuOevGKC_2RjaOfMFKisbfOZdZuE0olo7_GUo9ZymA04a2ZOg1FPf_Q-kpzQ0LcrR9WEr2LJntx3wKg4zWdVF2G_TvAV9Qnehx9KaEJ0uxBj9znjA66aBzuKrNrbuhKLnDd5pZ57uibTE7zCFZhfSZT2nUbWRTnA&amp;__tn__=-R\">announced by<\/a> his official Facebook page, which did not say where or how he died. Mr. Tork was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/checkup\/2009\/07\/my_blog_last_week_about.html\">rare cancer<\/a> affecting his tongue, in 2009.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There goes another bit of my childhood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monkees&#8217; bass player is dead at age 77: Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Beatles, died Feb. 21. He was 77. The death was announced by his official Facebook page, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[478,507],"class_list":["post-178154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-music","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}