{"id":10713,"date":"2012-02-29T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/02\/29\/davy-jones-died\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:05:45","slug":"davy-jones-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/davy-jones-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Davy Jones Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davy Jones suffered a heart attack and died, in Florida, at 66 years of age.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sUzs5dlLrm0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Davy Jones, the lead singer of the 1960s group The Monkees, died of a massive heart attack Wednesday in Florida, his spokeswoman said. He was 66.<\/p>\n<p>His publicist, Helen Kensick, confirmed that he died in Indiantown, where he lived.<\/p>\n<p>Jones rose to fame in 1965 when he joined The Monkees, a British popular rock group formed for a U.S. television show. Jones sang lead vocals on songs like &#8220;I Wanna Be Free&#8221; and &#8220;Daydream Believer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones was born Dec. 30, 1945, in Manchester, England. His long hair and British accent helped Jones achieve heartthrob status in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/140900893.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davy Jones suffered a heart attack and died, in Florida, at 66 years of age. Davy Jones, the lead singer of the 1960s group The Monkees, died of a massive heart attack Wednesday in Florida, his spokeswoman said. He was 66. His publicist, Helen Kensick, confirmed that he died in Indiantown, where he lived. Jones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/davy-jones-died\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Davy Jones Died<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[243],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2MN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}