{"id":38571,"date":"2011-08-23T16:48:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=38571"},"modified":"2011-08-23T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T14:48:41","slug":"motown-songwriter-nick-ashford-dies-at-age-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/motown-songwriter-nick-ashford-dies-at-age-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Motown Songwriter Nick Ashford Dies At Age 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"100%\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z0LT_OFPuXc?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nick Ashford, one half of the songwriting duo Ashford &amp; Simpson, passed away Monday in a New York hospital after succumbing to throat cancer. The husband and wife duo were the pens behind many of R&amp;B\u2019s bests, having written hits for Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan and, more recently, received co-writing credit on Amy Winehouse\u2019s \u201cTears Dry On Their Own.\u201d Kids of the \u201980s will mostly likely remember the tandem best for when \u201cSolid Like A Rock\u201d used to play on Video Soul during the Donnie Simpson days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smokingsection.uproxx.com\/TSS\/2011\/08\/motown-songwriter-nick-ashford-dies-at-age-70\" target=\"_blank\">TSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Ashford, one half of the songwriting duo Ashford &amp; Simpson, passed away Monday in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-a27","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}