{"id":1331,"date":"2009-02-03T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2009-02-04T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:47:35","slug":"the-day-the-music-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/the-day-the-music-died","title":{"rendered":"The Day the Music Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del datetime=\"2009-02-04T15:46:41+00:00\">40<\/del> 50 years ago today, Buddy Holly died in an airplane crash shortly after taking off from Mason City Airport following his last show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake. Holly&#8217;s final performance and death occurred in what would become my neighborhood 7 years later. As you can see below, I still have roots in the area. I&#8217;ve marked the spot of the crash as well as my hometown, my sister&#8217;s home and my brother&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;s=AARTsJodK347ZthW3N1fyTjRkbBibvoJ2Q&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=111759587937192816330.00046208ac9848cabf66f&amp;ll=43.231196,-93.103638&amp;spn=0.700401,1.167297&amp;z=9&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=111759587937192816330.00046208ac9848cabf66f&amp;ll=43.231196,-93.103638&amp;spn=0.700401,1.167297&amp;z=9&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 50 years ago today, Buddy Holly died in an airplane crash shortly after taking off from Mason City Airport following his last show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake. Holly&#8217;s final performance and death occurred in what would become my neighborhood 7 years later. As you can see below, I still have roots &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/the-day-the-music-died\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Day the Music Died&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[1285,206,1559],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanation","category-music","tag-buddy-holly","tag-iowa","tag-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-lt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}