{"id":20867,"date":"2013-04-25T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20867"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:43:20","slug":"legendary-woodstock-singer-dies-of-heart-attack-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20867","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Woodstock Singer Dies Of Heart Attack At\u00a072"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014<strong> Richie Havens<\/strong>, who sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, has died of a heart attack, his family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He was 72.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Havens<\/strong>, a folk singer and guitarist, was the first performer at the three-day 1969 Woodstock Festival. He returned to the site during the 40th anniversary in 2009. The singer\u2019s website said he had kidney surgery years ago and that he never recovered enough to perform concerts like he used to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Havens <\/strong>performed at Bill Clinton\u2019s presidential Inauguration in 1993. He has released more than 25 albums. His last album was 2008&#8217;s \u201c<em>Nobody Left to Crown<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Richie Havens, who sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, has died of a heart attack, his family said in a statement. He was 72. Havens, a folk singer and guitarist, was the first performer at the three-day 1969 Woodstock Festival. He returned to the site during the 40th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}