{"id":3947,"date":"2011-03-20T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2011-03-20T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:26:56","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-ronnie-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/20\/saying-goodbye-to-ronnie-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye To Ronnie Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">From: Buddy Buie<br \/>Subject: Ronnie&#8217;s funeral<\/p>\n<p>Dear Bob,<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ronnie Hammond\" href=\"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/03\/17\/ronnie-hammond\/\">Your words<\/a> were read at Ronnie&#8217;s goodbye. Arnie Geller, record executive and my former partner, gave an elegant and moving reading of your tribute. <\/p>\n<p>Barry Bailey, J.R. Cobb, and Dean Daughtry were there. Robert Nix and Paul Goddard were not there because of health issues. The Atlanta Rhythm Section and I APPRECIATE your respect and enjoyment of our music.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Rockin&#8217;,<\/p>\n<p>Buddy Buie<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Growing up in the suburbs, going to college in Vermont, I never dreamed I could reach my heroes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad day when they leave us.\u00c2\u00a0 But their music lives on.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie, wherever you are, I&#8217;m still so into your music (and the rest of the band!)<\/p>\n<p>By taking an alternative path, these musicians make our lives worth living.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>I never really knew you.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, we did.\u00c2\u00a0 Millions of us.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Buddy BuieSubject: Ronnie&#8217;s funeral Dear Bob, Your words were read at Ronnie&#8217;s goodbye. Arnie Geller, record executive and my former partner, gave an elegant and moving reading of your tribute. Barry Bailey, J.R. Cobb, and Dean Daughtry were there. Robert Nix and Paul Goddard were not there because of health issues. The Atlanta Rhythm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-11F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3950,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}