{"id":81209,"date":"2018-08-17T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81209"},"modified":"2018-08-17T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:33:04","slug":"the-queen-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81209","title":{"rendered":"The Queen Has Passed&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news. CNBC (and other venues) reports that Aretha passed yesterday, due to advanced pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/16\/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-has-died-ap-citing-publicist.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/16\/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-has-died-ap-citing-publicist.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who else in the world could make a long-term, memorable hit out of one word: R-E-S-P-E-C-T?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OD3WOKLTRyQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who else celebrated being a woman decades before this current generation of Jugendipshits thought it was a &#8216;thing&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dEWuAcMWDLY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kids today&#8230; they don&#8217;t know nothin&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>See you next time around, Aretha. \u00a0Gonna miss you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news. CNBC (and other venues) reports that Aretha passed yesterday, due to advanced pancreatic cancer. https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/16\/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-has-died-ap-citing-publicist.html Who else in the world could make a long-term, memorable hit out of one word: R-E-S-P-E-C-T? &nbsp; Who else celebrated being a woman decades before this current generation of Jugendipshits thought it was a &#8216;thing&#8221;? &nbsp; &nbsp; Kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-l7P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}