{"id":46646,"date":"2012-02-01T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=46646"},"modified":"2012-02-01T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:43:03","slug":"r-i-p-don-cornelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/r-i-p-don-cornelius\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Don Cornelius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"46647\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/r-i-p-don-cornelius\/don-cornelius\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/don-cornelius.jpg?fit=450%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,350\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"don-cornelius\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/don-cornelius.jpg?fit=450%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46647\" title=\"don-cornelius\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/don-cornelius.jpg?resize=450%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2012\/02\/01\/don-cornelius-commits-suicide-dead-died-gunshot\/#.TylZAcVSRDt\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a>, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, was found dead in his home from a self inflicted gunshot wound. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p>Don Cornelius was an American television show host and producer who is best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance\/music franchise <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nFRy4f73HTg\" target=\"_blank\">Soul Train<\/a>, which he hosted from 1971-1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to TMZ, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, was found dead in his home from&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-c8m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46646","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=46646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}