{"id":4543,"date":"2011-06-19T03:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T02:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2011-06-19T03:23:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T02:23:32","slug":"rip-clarence-clemons-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-sax-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/rip-clarence-clemons-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-sax-player\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Clarence Clemons (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band sax player)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/clarence-clemons.jpg\" alt=\"RIP Clarence Clemons (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band sax player)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really saddened to hear that ace saxophonist Clarence Clemons passed away tonight. This guy was a legend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Known as the &#8216;Big Man&#8217; on account of his imposing 6-foot-5-inch, 270-plus pound frame, Clemons played on some of Springsteen&#8217;s greatest works, including the incredible solo on &#8220;Jungleland&#8221; (which he spent 16 hours perfecting) and the legendary track, &#8220;Born To Run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RIP Clarence. It was a\u00a0privilege\u00a0to have seen you play.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"580\" height=\"465\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VH_NvYPBDY0?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really saddened to hear that ace saxophonist Clarence Clemons passed away tonight. This guy was a legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-bands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/clarence-clemons.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4545,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}