{"id":100241,"date":"2016-01-18T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T11:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=100241"},"modified":"2016-01-18T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T11:16:15","slug":"blowfly-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/blowfly-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowfly Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"100242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/blowfly-has-passed-away\/12400702_10153426898243990_8384092466106511772_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12400702_10153426898243990_8384092466106511772_n.jpg?fit=720%2C465&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,465\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"12400702_10153426898243990_8384092466106511772_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12400702_10153426898243990_8384092466106511772_n.jpg?fit=640%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12400702_10153426898243990_8384092466106511772_n.jpg?fit=640%2C349&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"12400702_10153426898243990_8384092466106511772_n\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12400702_10153426898243990_8384092466106511772_n.jpg?resize=540%2C349&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12400702_10153426898243990_8384092466106511772_n.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clarence Reid<\/strong>, the genius known both by his given name and as <strong>Blowfly<\/strong>, the Master of Class, passed peacefully yesterday, January 17th, in his hospice room. <\/p>\n<p>His sister <strong>Virginia<\/strong> and I thank you for all the love you have shown this week. We also thank you for supporting <strong>Clarence<\/strong>&#8216;s 50 + year music career &#8211; especially these last few years. We love you and will keep you informed on services and tribute performances in <strong>Clarence<\/strong>&#8216;s honor.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing But Love,<br \/>\n<strong>Tom Bowker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace (February 14, 1939 \u2013 January 17, 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarence Reid, the genius known both by his given name and as Blowfly, the Master&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_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":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-q4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}