{"id":986,"date":"2007-05-18T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2007-05-18T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:21:12","slug":"regrets_bo_diddley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/18\/regrets_bo_diddley\/","title":{"rendered":"Regrets: Bo Diddley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that Bo Diddley, the elderly blues-and-rock guitarist best known for the classics &#8220;Who Do You Love?&#8221; and &#8220;Bo Diddley,&#8221; suffered a stroke following a performance on Saturday night. And even though articles like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/05\/18\/bodiddley.hospitalized.ap\/\">this one<\/a> are optimistic that Diddley will play again, I personally think his career is over. He&#8217;s 78 years old, and my personal experience with strokes was not a positive one (my grandmother had one when she was still relatively young &#8212; early 60s, I believe &#8212; and she ended up trapped in a half-paralyzed body, unable to speak, for the last 16 years of her life).<\/p>\n<p>Diddley played Salt Lake not too long ago and I remember thinking that I really ought to make an effort to go see him, because at his age you never know if he&#8217;s going to come around again. I really need to pay more attention to thoughts like that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that Bo Diddley, the elderly blues-and-rock guitarist best known for the classics &#8220;Who Do You Love?&#8221; and &#8220;Bo Diddley,&#8221; suffered a stroke following a performance on Saturday night. And even though articles like this one are optimistic that Diddley will play again, I personally think his career is over. He&#8217;s 78 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}