{"id":3666,"date":"2009-08-28T22:52:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2009-08-28T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:53:23","slug":"r-i-p-dj-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/?p=3666","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., DJ AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dj_am.jpg\" alt=\"DJ AM\" title=\"DJ AM\" width=\"282\" height=\"365\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dj_am.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dj_am-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know I haven&#8217;t been posting lately. I stayed off the grid a bit after a grueling month. My intent today was to come home and post a funny video that a friend sent me recently, but when I cut the laptop on, I found out that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/08\/28\/nyregion\/AP-US-Obit-DJ-AM.html?ref=nyregion\" >DJ AM died today here in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I never saw him spin in person, but I&#8217;ve seen plenty of video clips, heard plenty of mixes, and read a <em>lot<\/em> of testimonials on behalf of his greatness not only as a DJ, but as a person. So, I&#8217;m really saddened by the news. I just finished reading this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glamour.com\/magazine\/2008\/01\/dj-am\" >really moving (and \u2014 given the developments in the news of his death \u2014 depressing) piece in Glamour<\/a> about the struggles he tried to overcome on his way to stardom. <\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Goldstein\" >DJ AM<\/a>. Condolences to all his fam and friends in the DJ community and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I haven&#8217;t been posting lately. I stayed off the grid a bit after a grueling month. My intent today was to come home and post a funny video that a friend sent me recently, but when I cut the laptop on, I found out that DJ AM died today here in New York. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,104,122],"tags":[1166,172,979],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-nyc","tag-adam-goldstein","tag-dj-am","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}