{"id":9990,"date":"2020-06-18T07:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=9990"},"modified":"2020-06-18T07:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:31:59","slug":"vera-lynn-dead-at-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2020\/06\/vera-lynn-dead-at-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Vera Lynn dead at 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British World War II-era vocalist <strong>Vera Lynn<\/strong> died this morning. She was 103.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn was name-checked in <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Vera,&#8221; which appeared on Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Wall&#8221; (1979).<\/p>\n<p>The song opens with the lyric, &#8220;Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?&#8221; The song also references one of her most famous songs: &#8220;We&#8217;ll Meet Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her recording of &#8220;The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot&#8221; plays during the opening of the film &#8220;Pink Floyd The Wall&#8221; (1982).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British World War II-era vocalist Vera Lynn died this morning. She was 103. Lynn was name-checked in Roger Waters&#8216;s &#8220;Vera,&#8221; which appeared on Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Wall&#8221; (1979). The song opens with the lyric, &#8220;Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?&#8221; The song also references one of her most famous songs: &#8220;We&#8217;ll Meet Again.&#8221; Her recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9992,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions\/9992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}