{"id":19417,"date":"2022-09-29T11:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19417"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:04:46","slug":"rip-coolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/rip-coolio\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Coolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19418\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coolio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coolio.jpg 700w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coolio-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coolio-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Rapper Coolio, who came to prominence in the mid-90s with hits like <em>Fantastic Voyage<\/em> and <em>Gangsta&#8217;s Paradise<\/em>, died unexpectedly on Wednesday.\u00a0 He was 59.\u00a0 The 2-hit wonder, who won the 1996 Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, was tied for 178th in my latest look at my iTunes rankings.<\/p>\n<p>After his music career stalled, he moved into the acting world, appearing in 53 films between 1996 and 2021.\u00a0 He also appeared in numerous television shows, usually appearing as himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Coolio, who came to prominence in the mid-90s with hits like Fantastic Voyage and Gangsta&#8217;s Paradise, died unexpectedly on Wednesday.\u00a0 He was 59.\u00a0 The 2-hit wonder, who won the 1996 Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, was tied for 178th in my latest look at my iTunes rankings. After his music career stalled, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[290,2896,328],"class_list":["post-19417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-coolio","tag-grammys","tag-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19419,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/19419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}