{"id":1559,"date":"2007-12-16T21:32:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T02:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2007-12-16T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T02:32:43","slug":"on-dan-fogelberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"On Dan Fogelberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg has passed away. Prostate cancer. He was fifty-six.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m not sure that I knew Fogelberg’s music, outside of “Same Old Lang Syne.” I first heard that song on the radio, about this time of year, about twelve years ago. It was a sad, wistful song, the story of a man who meets an old flame in the grocery store, and they buy a six-pack and talk through their lives. Just a chance encounter. Something about the lyric got<\/i> me, though, and the song lodged itself in my mind. There’s a certain set of memories that I’ve attached to that song. Yes — sad, wistful memories.<\/p>\n

I never explored Fogelberg’s music, and there’s only the few times I’ve heard “Same Old Lang Syne” on the radio.<\/p>\n

Fifty-six. It’s too young.<\/p>\n

I’d like to think that Fogelberg is — wherever he is — having that six-pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg has passed away. Prostate cancer. He was fifty-six. I’m not sure that I knew Fogelberg’s music, outside of “Same Old Lang Syne.” I first heard that song on the radio, about this time of year, about twelve years ago. It was a sad, wistful song, the story of a man who meetsContinue reading “On Dan Fogelberg”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-obituary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}