{"id":1695,"date":"2007-12-12T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T02:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2007-12-12T23:52:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T06:52:49","slug":"rock-n-roll-founder-ike-turner-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#8216;n Roll Founder Ike Turner Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/rocket.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/rocket.gif','popup','width=250,height=417,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/rocket-tm.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Rocket\" \/><\/a>According to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/13\/news\/top_stories\/1_00_0601_12_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/span> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iketurner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ike Turner<\/a><\/strong> died today at 11:38 AM in his San Marcos home. He was 76 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A groundbreaking guitarist, pianist and bandleader who helped pioneer both early rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll and modern rhythm and blues, Turner&#8217;s reputation was tarnished by his drug addiction, stint in prison and allegations on film and in print that he abused Tina Turner, his famous former wife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We know he lived in San Marcos, but we used to see his Benz (with personalized plates) around town so much that we&#8217;ve made <strong>Ike Turner<\/strong> an honorary <em>Carlsbadistanian<\/em> and we&#8217;re sad to see the musical genius go. He will be missed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071212-2105-bn12turner.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iketurner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IkeTurner.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in the North County Times Ike Turner died today at 11:38 AM in his San Marcos home. He was 76 years old. A groundbreaking guitarist, pianist and bandleader who helped pioneer both early rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll and modern rhythm and blues, Turner&#8217;s reputation was tarnished by his drug addiction, stint in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}