{"id":9323,"date":"2015-12-10T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=9323"},"modified":"2015-12-08T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:37:47","slug":"trippin-on-a-hole-in-a-paper-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/trippin-on-a-hole-in-a-paper-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Trippin&#8217; On A Hole In A Paper Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/scott-weiland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9329\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/scott-weiland.jpg\" alt=\"scott-weiland\" width=\"628\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/scott-weiland.jpg 628w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/scott-weiland-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a>The polite thing to say would be that the world was shocked when news broke Friday morning that Scott Weiland, former lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, had died. \u00a0But the shock was not so much that Weiland had died, but that he had somehow managed to survive this long. \u00a0Weiland was 48 when he was found dead on a tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota last week, with cocaine found near the body.<\/p>\n<p>Weiland became a superstar in the early 90s as Stone Temple Pilots rode the wave of grunge with their hit albums <em>Core<\/em> and <em>Purple<\/em>. \u00a0His subsequent drug abuse led to rocky relations with his band mates and numerous arrests, causing numerous break-ups. \u00a0During one of those, he joined with former members of Guns N&#8217; Roses to form the supergroup Velvet Revolver, before leaving the group to rejoin with STP.<\/p>\n<p>Weiland leaves behind two children, who seemingly had no relationship with the singer, and a musical legacy marred by the demons that ultimately took his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The polite thing to say would be that the world was shocked when news broke Friday morning that Scott Weiland, former lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, had died. \u00a0But the shock was not so much that Weiland had died, but that he had somehow managed to survive this long. \u00a0Weiland was [&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":[200,6133,287,6134],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-guns-n-roses","tag-scott-weiland","tag-stp","tag-velvet-revolver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323","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=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9340,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions\/9340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}