{"id":8284,"date":"2011-01-05T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2011-01-05T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T21:02:06","slug":"in-memoriam-gerry-rafferty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8284","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Gerry Rafferty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGerry Rafferty, 1947 – 2011<\/b><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty<\/a>, who, with his partner in the band Stealers Wheel, Joe Egan, wrote and recorded “Stuck in the Middle With You”<\/a> in 1972 has died today<\/a>. He later wrote and recorded enduring hits such as “Baker Street” and “Right Down the Line.” But as “Stuck in the Middle…” has been The BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> unofficial official theme song since we began here nearly seven years ago, it seems appropriate to take a minute today — ironically enough, on the first day the new Congress convenes — to pause and tip our hats in his memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gerry Rafferty, 1947 – 2011 Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, who, with his partner in the band Stealers Wheel, Joe Egan, wrote and recorded “Stuck in the Middle With You” in 1972 has died today. He later wrote and recorded enduring hits such as “Baker Street” and “Right Down the Line.” But as “Stuck in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}