{"id":2342,"date":"2007-08-04T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2007-08-04T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T16:24:00","slug":"an-irish-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"An Irish Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m surprised that no one has mentioned it here, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-makem3aug03,1,3896683.story?coll=la-news-obituaries\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday\u2019s paper brought the news<\/a> of the death of Tommy Makem, 74, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.ie\/~ronolan\/clancys.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers<\/a>, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clancy_Brothers\" target=\"_blank\">premier Irish folk music groups<\/a> of the 1960s. The group went on to produce 55 albums and made countless tours of Ireland, Britain and America before braking up in 1975. Tommy Makem continued to play Irish music with the Clancy\u2019s and others afterwards. I\u2019ve heard a few of his albums; quite good.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy, may \u2018ye be enjoying a few pints whereever you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m surprised that no one has mentioned it here, but yesterday\u2019s paper brought the news of the death of Tommy Makem, 74, of Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, one of the premier Irish folk music groups of the 1960s. The group went on to produce 55 albums and made countless tours of Ireland, Britain <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2342\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}