{"id":7,"date":"2010-03-18T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-03-18T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:26:00","slug":"alex-chilton-died-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Alex Chilton Died Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/alex-chil-bach1-735215.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/alex-chil-bach1-735212.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rothko is dead, we get to see Jeff Koons.<br \/>Kerouac is dead, now we read books by JK Rowling.<br \/>Alex Chilton is dead, now we listen to Lady Gaga.<\/p>\n<p>We have lost.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t consider myself a friend of Alex\u2019s \u2013 I\u2018ve met him about a dozen times \u2013 a drink, a smile, a \u201cHey, y\u2019all ah right?\u201d that was about it. It was more than I ever wanted and far more than I had a right to. Because while meeting him was great \u2013 it was always about the music for me. I still have that, and that\u2019s fine. But like anyone, I would have liked to have heard one more song.<\/p>\n<p>One more sloppy, barely held together, heartbreaking, amazing song. Warts and all. He did that better than anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Rock on, Butch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rothko is dead, we get to see Jeff Koons.Kerouac is dead, now we read books by JK Rowling.Alex Chilton is dead, now we listen to Lady Gaga. We have lost. I wouldn\u2019t consider myself a friend of Alex\u2019s \u2013 I\u2018ve met him about a dozen times \u2013 a drink, a smile, a \u201cHey, y\u2019all ah right?\u201d that was about it. It was more than I ever wanted and far more than I had a right to. Because while meeting him was great \u2013 it was always about the music for me. I still have that, and that\u2019s fine. But like&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=7\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alex Chilton Died Last Night<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[136,160,170],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}