{"id":20607,"date":"2016-12-24T19:26:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20607"},"modified":"2016-12-24T19:26:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T19:26:40","slug":"rick-parfitt-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20607","title":{"rendered":"Rick Parfitt Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rick Parfitt in 2013\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/697;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rick Parfitt in 2013\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rick_parfitt.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"697\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">It always seems to happen at this time of year. Famous people dying \u2013 although we\u2019ve lost a lot of them during 2016. But I was <a title=\"Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt dies aged 68\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-38427459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saddened to read of Rick Parfitt\u2019s death earlier today on Christmas Eve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I went to see Status Quo last weekend in Leeds, and though it wasn\u2019t the same without Rick \u2013 his health had prevented him taking part anyway \u2013 it was still a good show. But yet another great band has now reached the end of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Rick has had various health scares over the last few years, and although the cause of his death doesn\u2019t appear to be directly related, I\u2019m sure it didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n<p>He was about to release some solo material, I believe. Shame he didn\u2019t get to see it.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Rick, and thanks for the music over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always seems to happen at this time of year. Famous people dying \u2013 although we\u2019ve lost a lot of them during 2016. But I was saddened to read of Rick Parfitt\u2019s death earlier today on Christmas Eve. I went to see Status Quo last weekend in Leeds, and though it wasn\u2019t the same without [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/20607","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=20607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}