{"id":12066,"date":"2017-09-07T00:08:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T08:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=12066"},"modified":"2020-10-03T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T02:21:11","slug":"12066","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=12066","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/walterbecker21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/walterbecker21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"walterbecker2\" width=\"330\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/walterbecker21.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/walterbecker21-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/walterbecker21-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WALTER BECKER (1950-2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The elusive genius and co-founder of Steely Dan passed away five days ago. I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of his music lately, and the hits he co-wrote with Donald Fagen are legendary: &#8220;Rikki Don&#8217;t Lose That Number&#8221;, &#8220;Kid Charlemagne&#8221;, &#8220;Katy Lied&#8221;, &#8220;Aja&#8221;, &#8220;Hey Nineteen&#8221;, and the autobiographical &#8220;Third World Man&#8221;. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p> His uniquely sharp wit and musical linguistics will be dearly missed and never replicated.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Courtesy walterbecker.com)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALTER BECKER (1950-2017) The elusive genius and co-founder of Steely Dan passed away five days ago. I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of his music lately, and the hits he co-wrote with Donald Fagen are legendary: &#8220;Rikki Don&#8217;t Lose That Number&#8221;, &#8220;Kid Charlemagne&#8221;, &#8220;Katy Lied&#8221;, &#8220;Aja&#8221;, &#8220;Hey Nineteen&#8221;, and the autobiographical &#8220;Third World Man&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12066"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12071,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066\/revisions\/12071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}