{"id":7289,"date":"2011-06-02T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:04:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:04:54","slug":"legendary-funk-singer-george-clinton-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7289","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Funk Singer George Clinton Hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary funker <strong>George Clinton<\/strong> has been hospitalized, suffering from a staff infection to his leg, according to TMZ<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old front man of the heralded funk group Parliament Funkadelic reportedly went in for a routine check-up when doctors discovered a staff infection in the eccentric singer&#8217;s leg and made the to decision to keep him for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>As for the seriousness of his condition a rep for <strong>Clinton<\/strong> says, \u201cHe&#8217;ll be just fine. Thank you for all your prayers and concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinton<\/strong> has made a huge contribution to hip hop, and is an essential influence of the west coast&#8217;s G-Funk movement.<\/p>\n<p>He has even featured on several prominent hip hop tracks including <strong>Tupac&#8217;s<\/strong> \u201cCant C Me,\u201d <strong>OutKast&#8217;s<\/strong> \u201cSynthisizer\u201d and <strong>Wu-Tang Clan&#8217;s<\/strong> \u201cTar Pit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinton<\/strong> had a cameo in the 1990 hip hop comedy, House Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary funker George Clinton has been hospitalized, suffering from a staff infection to his leg, according to TMZ The 69-year-old front man of the heralded funk group Parliament Funkadelic reportedly went in for a routine check-up when doctors discovered a staff infection in the eccentric singer&#8217;s leg and made the to decision to keep him [&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-7289","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\/7289","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=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}