{"id":10526,"date":"2012-09-26T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10526"},"modified":"2012-09-26T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:38:14","slug":"andy-williams-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10526","title":{"rendered":"Andy Williams Dies, Aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/andy_williams.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/135;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"andy_williams\" alt=\"andy_williams\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/andy_williams_thumb.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a>Sad to see <a title=\"BBC - Andy Williams Dies, Aged 84\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-19729630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this on a newsflash<\/a> this afternoon. Singing legend, Andy Williams, has died at the age of 84 after a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t realise that he provided backing vocals for Bing Crosby\u2019s Swingin\u2019 on a Star &#8211; which dates from as far back as 1944! Blimey, that\u2019s not long after my dad was born!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny that I know a lot of these old songs and artistes, which date from way before my birth. I remember listening to them on the radio when I was young. But when I talk to pupils on lessons, many these days don\u2019t seem to know anything from before they were born.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all a bit sad, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to see this on a newsflash this afternoon. Singing legend, Andy Williams, has died at the age of 84 after a battle with cancer. I didn\u2019t realise that he provided backing vocals for Bing Crosby\u2019s Swingin\u2019 on a Star &#8211; which dates from as far back as 1944! Blimey, that\u2019s not long after my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,97,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related","category-music-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}