{"id":11988,"date":"2020-03-31T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2020-03-30T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T04:37:20","slug":"joe-diffie-1958-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/joe-diffie-1958-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Diffie, 1958-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Diffie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2020\/03\/29\/joe-diffie-country-music-coronavirus-complications-obituary\/2936694001\/\">who died Sunday from coronavirus<\/a>, was one of THE definitive singers for 1990s country \u2014 for me at least.<\/p>\n<p><em>Third Rock From The Sun<\/em> was the first CD I bought. I have 85% to 100% of it memorized. Below is one of the &#8220;deep cuts&#8221; from that CD, a song that never made it to the radio, but exemplifies the blue-collar attitude of both Diffie&#8217;s own life and the era.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDmIi9ivyEs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Diffie, who died Sunday from coronavirus, was one of THE definitive singers for 1990s country \u2014 for me at least. Third Rock From The Sun was the first CD I bought. I have 85% to 100% of it memorized. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/joe-diffie-1958-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11991,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions\/11991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}