{"id":3017,"date":"2003-07-05T01:36:51","date_gmt":"2003-07-05T01:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2003-07-05T01:36:51","modified_gmt":"2003-07-05T01:36:51","slug":"goodbye_barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3017","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Singer Barry White dies at 58 <\/h3>\n<p><strong>LOS ANGELES, California (AP) &#8212; Velvet-voiced R&#38;B crooner Barry White, whose lush baritone and throbbing musical compositions oozed sex appeal on songs like &#8220;Can&#8217;t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe,&#8221; died Friday. He was 58. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>White, who had kidney failure from years of high blood pressure, had been undergoing dialysis and had been hospitalized since a September stroke. He died about 9:30 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his manager, Ned Shankman. <\/p>\n<p>His canyon-deep, butter-smooth vocals emphasized his songs&#8217; sexually charged verbal foreplay, like on 1975&#8217;s &#8220;Love Serenade,&#8221; which began with White purring: &#8220;I want you the way you came into the world, I don&#8217;t want to feel no clothes &#8230;&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/07\/04\/obit.barry.white.ap\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Barry White dies at 58 LOS ANGELES, California (AP) &#8212; Velvet-voiced R&#38;B crooner Barry White, whose lush baritone and throbbing musical compositions oozed sex appeal on songs like &#8220;Can&#8217;t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe,&#8221; died Friday. He was 58. White, who had kidney failure from years of high blood pressure, had been undergoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}