{"id":5737,"date":"2009-06-08T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:55:20","slug":"hugh-hopper-ripdate-june-8-2009-94507-am-pdthugh-hopper-ripdate-june-8-2009-94507-am-pdthugh-hopper-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/06\/hugh-hopper-ripdate-june-8-2009-94507-am-pdthugh-hopper-ripdate-june-8-2009-94507-am-pdthugh-hopper-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hopper R.I.P.\n\tDate: \tJune 8, 2009 9:45:07 AM PDT\nHugh Hopper R.I.P.\n\tDate: \tJune 8, 2009 9:45:07 AM PDT\nHugh Hopper R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/06\/8062009141650.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"255\" alt=\"8062009141650.jpg.jpeg\" \/><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><b>Hugh Colin Hopper<\/b> (born <span class=\"mw-formatted-date\" title=\"1945-04-29\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/April_29\" title=\"April 29\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">29 April<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1945\" title=\"1945\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1945<\/a><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitstable\" title=\"Whitstable\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Whitstable<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kent\" title=\"Kent\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kent<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" title=\"England\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">England<\/a>, grown up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canterbury\" title=\"Canterbury\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canterbury<\/a>; died 7 June 2009)<\/p>\n<p>Hopper was diagnosed with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leukemia\" title=\"Leukemia\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">leukemia<\/a> in June 2008 and has been undergoing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemotherapy\" title=\"Chemotherapy\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">chemotherapy<\/a>. As a result of his illness and the treatment, he has had to cancel all his concert appearances.<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Hopper#cite_note-2\" title=\"\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> A Hugh Hopper benefit concert took place in December 2008 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/100_Club\" title=\"100 Club\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">100 Club<\/a> in London and featured In Cahoots, members of Soft Machine Legacy, Delta Sax Quartet, Sophia Domancich and Simon Goubert, Yumi Hara Cawkwell, and the Alex Maguire Quartet.<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Hopper#cite_note-3\" title=\"\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> Another benefit : Hugh Hopper Benefit : Le Triton, Les Lilas (near Paris), 27 june 2009, 9pm. <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Hopper#cite_note-4\" title=\"\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> His death was announced 7 June 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.musicalnews.com\/articolo.php?codice=15986&amp;sz=6\"><p>\n  [From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalnews.com\/articolo.php?codice=15986&amp;sz=6\" ><cite>Musicalnews.com: Prog jazz rock genius: addio a Hugh Hopper storico bassista dei Soft Machine !<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/06\/8062009141650.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"255\" alt=\"8062009141650.jpg.jpeg\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>[From   Musicalnews.com: Prog jazz rock genius: addio a Hugh Hopper storico bassista dei Soft Machine !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1ux","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5738,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}