{"id":9444,"date":"2012-12-11T22:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T06:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2013-03-16T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T08:31:15","slug":"famed-sitarist-ravi-shankar-dies-at-92-latimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2012\/12\/famed-sitarist-ravi-shankar-dies-at-92-latimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed sitarist Ravi Shankar dies at 92 &#8211; latimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2012\/12\/la-famed-sitarist-ravi-shankar-dies-at-92-2012-001.jpeg\" alt=\"La famed sitarist ravi shankar dies at 92 2012 001\" title=\"la-famed-sitarist-ravi-shankar-dies-at-92-2012-001.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>RIP: <strong>Ravi Shankar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-famed-sitarist-ravi-shankar-dies-at-92-20121211,0,2682331.story\" >Famed sitarist Ravi Shankar dies at 92 &#8211; latimes.com<\/a>: &#8220;Ravi Shankar, the revered master of the sitar who introduced Indian music to much of the Western world, died Tuesday in San Diego County. He was 92.<\/p>\n<p>Shankar\u00a0 was a hippie musical icon of the 1960s, playing\u00a0 at\u00a0 Woodstock and hobnobbing with The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>In 1966 the Indian musician met Beatle George Harrison,\u00a0 who became his most famous disciple and gave the musician-composer unexpected pop-culture cachet. Harrison labeled Shankar &#8216;the godfather of world music.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP: Ravi Shankar Famed sitarist Ravi Shankar dies at 92 &#8211; latimes.com: &#8220;Ravi Shankar, the revered master of the sitar who introduced Indian music to much of the Western world, died Tuesday in San Diego County. He was 92. Shankar\u00a0 was a hippie musical icon of the 1960s, playing\u00a0 at\u00a0 Woodstock and hobnobbing with The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2012\/12\/famed-sitarist-ravi-shankar-dies-at-92-latimes-com\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Famed sitarist Ravi Shankar dies at 92 &#8211; latimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-2sk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444","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=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9481,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions\/9481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}