{"id":32570,"date":"2016-04-21T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=32570"},"modified":"2016-05-04T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:33:54","slug":"rip-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/rip-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating! Another icon gone too soon.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Prince<br \/>\nJune 7, 1958 \u2013 April 21, 2016<\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 469px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/74291910\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 126.652452% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/74291910?et=vxYzBmcHQfdLIW-UVgVjEw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=HrF5Z07CZ74uz792i692A--XUiYCvYGcQgS0BjiwT3w=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"469\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just <em>yesterday<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theboombox.com\/prince-alive-and-well-paisley-park-dance-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;d been reassured about Prince&#8217;s health after reading that he&#8217;d appeared before fans on Saturday<\/a> to show them that he was okay after being hospitalized for the flu. I was checking up on him because of a blind gossip item that seemed to be about him, claiming he was at death&#8217;s door. I thought, &#8220;This garbage is always wrong. Let me prove it&#8217;s wrong.&#8221; I was happy to take the fact that he was up and about as a good sign, but perhaps I should have taken this statement that he made at face value: &#8220;Wait a few days before you waste any prayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was hard enough that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/vanity-dead-prince-discovery-dies-865763\" target=\"_blank\">Prince&#8217;s protege Vanity died in February;<\/a> like Prince, she was only 57 years old.\u00a0 I felt like I lost an important part of my past with her! Now, for Prince himself to die &#8230; well, it consoles me a little to imagine Vanity quickly painting the pearly gates purple, so that Prince can dance through in style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d0lLDyknUjw\" target=\"_blank\">Let&#8217;s Go Crazy<\/a>&#8221; from the movie <em>Purple Rain<\/em> has always been one of my favorite Prince songs. (My all-time favorite is the B-side of &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Crazy&#8221;: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erotic_City\" target=\"_blank\">Erotic City<\/a>.&#8221;) I vividly remember listening to it during a dance in my high school gym. The lyrics were always intense for a party song, and they feel much more intense today:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re all excited\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But we don&#8217;t know why\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Maybe it&#8217;s cause\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em> We&#8217;re all gonna die<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>And when we do (When we do)\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What&#8217;s it all for (What&#8217;s it all for)\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You better live now\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Before the grim reaper come knocking on your door.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m pretty confident that Prince really <em>lived<\/em>, literally right up until the end. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/prince-final-concert-before-death\" target=\"_blank\">The man gave his last concert exactly one week ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Prince had fashion sense like no other. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/1500115\/prince-fashion-evolution-photos\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the 45 photos Billboard has put together<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED AGAIN TO ADD: Here are some interesting links.<\/p>\n<p>Vintage Prince interviews\/cover stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/music\/a44218\/prince-1995-esquire-gentleman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esquire Gentleman&#8217;s 1995 cover story on the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, during his fight with Warner Bros.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/mobile\/article\/0,,21001773_21001751,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">People&#8217;s 1984 cover story on Prince<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/prince-talks-the-silence-is-broken-19850912\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone&#8217;s 1985 cover story on Prince<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/prince-interview-inside-paisley-park?mbid=social_tumblr\" target=\"_blank\">In this 1991 interview, Prince said the last time he cried was when his dad threw him out of the house<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m8mg7CxAYUM\" target=\"_blank\">Prince&#8217;s 1999 CNN interview<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2008\/11\/24\/soup-with-prince\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker had soup with Prince. The last paragraph is a must-read<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.papermag.com\/prince-1999-cover-story-1744672669.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paper Magazine&#8217;s 1999 cover story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Performances and reviews of performances.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/biz\/news\/watch-princes-epic-performance-at-the-snl-40th-anniversary-after-party-1201759475\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prince at the SNL40 after-party<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/04\/watch-this-entire-classic-prince-concert.html\" target=\"_blank\">A full concert from 1982<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theconcourse.deadspin.com\/princes-1991-mtv-video-awards-performance-is-the-maybe-1772314076\" target=\"_blank\">The 1991 MTV Video Music Awards performance starring Prince and his assless pants<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/05\/sports\/football\/05halftime.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times review of Prince&#8217;s 2007 Super Bowl halftime show<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/04\/21\/arts\/music\/prince-times-archive.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times first reviewed a Prince show when the singer was just 19, and greatness was still to come.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prince&#8217;s fashion and appearance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2016\/04\/22\/prince-had-his-signature-high-heels-made-in-the-southland\/\" target=\"_blank\">The man who made Prince&#8217;s high heels<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4226419\/prince-passport-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best passport photo of all time<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/13428712\/prince-kanye-west-miguel-purple-rain-music-fashion\/?mbid=social_twitter_vr\" target=\"_blank\">Vogue&#8217;s tribute to Prince, the fashion icon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/2871449\/prince-style-retrospective\/?xrs=_s.tw_main\" target=\"_blank\">Nineteen outfits only Prince could pull off<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The women in Prince&#8217;s life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/prince-dead-vanity-purple-rain-love-story?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag\" target=\"_blank\">Prince and his ex-girlfriend, Vanity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/prince-protege-vanity-mourned-by-apollonia-end-of-an-era-for-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity remembered by Apollonia, after the former&#8217;s death in February 2016<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/prince-dead-sheila-e-explainer-people-archive?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag\" target=\"_blank\">Another Prince protege: drummer Sheila E.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/news\/259440\/mayte-garcia-prince-death-statement-with-our-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-wife Mayte Garcia makes a statement about Prince&#8217;s death<\/a>. Their son, Boy Gregory, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/34703\/prince-s-son-died-of-natural-causes\" target=\"_blank\">died seven days after his birth in 1996 due to Pfeiffer&#8217;s Syndrome<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prince and business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/21\/why-you-can-t-listen-to-prince-s-music-after-his-death.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prince&#8217;s long history of giving the middle finger to record companies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/natalierobehmed\/2016\/04\/22\/from-label-disputes-to-streaming-sagas-princes-pioneering-music-business-legacy\/#13ef20bb7882\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;My music wants to do what it wants to do, and I just want to get out of its way,&#8221; Prince told Forbes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prince and Minneapolis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/1113-how-prince-changed-minneapolis\/?mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">How Prince changed Minneapolis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personal essays:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/my-classmate-prince-the-rock-star-1461279053\" target=\"_blank\">Eben Shapiro, who used to work for MrB at the Wall Street Journal, had Prince in his 7th-grade class<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/prince-masculinity-self-love?mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How Prince Helped Me Define My Black Masculinity &#8230;&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thecurrent.org\/2016\/04\/good-night-sweet-prince\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Good night, sweet Prince,&#8221; by Andrea Swensson<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tressiemc.com\/2016\/04\/21\/there-are-thieves-in-the-temple-tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;There Are Thieves in the Temple Tonight.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2016\/04\/why-prince-was-a-hero-to-strippers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why Prince was a hero to strippers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/waxpoetics.com\/features\/behind-the-purple-ropes-prince-and-the-revolution2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tour manager Alan Leeds and his wife Gwen reminisce about working for Prince<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nightlyshow.tumblr.com\/post\/143381850101\/robin-thedes-amazing-prince-story-hear-the-whole\" target=\"_blank\">Robin Thede&#8217;s Prince story in gifs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@shanselman\/chatting-with-prince-on-aol-in-1999-23bb540fc47#.p9suw17zb\" target=\"_blank\">The late Erica Kennedy, author of <em>Bling<\/em>, chatted with Prince on AOL in 1999<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/22\/prince-superfan-facebook-tribute\/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#JfGYZYvdaZqu\" target=\"_blank\">Fan Robin Lee pays tribute on Facebook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2016\/04\/prince-lisa-robinson-obituary?mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Robinson remembers Prince&#8217;s special request for a Vanity Fair cover shoot (he wanted the other musicians to appear in chains)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Celebrity\/musical tributes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibe.com\/2016\/04\/the-color-purple-jennifer-hudson-prince-tribute\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Broadway cast of <em>The Color Purple<\/em> pays tribute to Prince<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/759020\/hamilton-cast-honors-prince-with-wildly-fun-let-s-go-crazy-performance\" target=\"_blank\">The cast of <em>Hamilton<\/em> pays tribute to Prince<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/mike-tysons-bizarre-prince-tribute-rip-meets-wtf-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tyson pays tribute to &#8220;Printhe.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/24\/fashion\/prince-mourned-fashion-world.html?smid=tw-nytfashion&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Campbell and other fashion people remember<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2016\/04\/21\/prince-dead-madonna\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details of death:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I quoted the &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Crazy&#8221; lyrics above, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/transcript-911-call-seeking-prince-shows-unconscious-elevator\/story?id=38586062\" target=\"_blank\">before I knew that Prince had been found in an elevator<\/a>. Eerily, another lyric from that song is, &#8220;And if the elevator tries to bring you down\/Go crazy, punch a higher floor.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/princes-death-additional-details-investigation-886853\" target=\"_blank\">Autopsy has been completed<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/princes-remains-cremated-rep-confirms-887174?utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Prince has been cremated<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mtv-readies-push-back-into-music-1461269912?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\">How MTV handled Prince&#8217;s death<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prince and religion<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/cover-story\/7348538\/prince-jehovahs-witness-life\" target=\"_blank\">Prince&#8217;s life as a Jehovah&#8217;s witness<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why we grieve for artists and why that&#8217;s okay:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/1\/12\/10755600\/celebrity-death-grief\" target=\"_blank\">They helped us know ourselves<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theconcourse.deadspin.com\/mourn-prince-however-you-can-for-as-long-as-you-want-1772408338\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mourn Prince However You Can, For as Long As You Want.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Princely lists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2014\/09\/24-outrageous-prince-stories.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vulture has a list of 24 fabulous Prince anecdotes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/features\/10-things-we-learned-about-princes-purple-rain-via-lets-go-crazy-20141231\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone picked out some highlights from the book <em>Let&#8217;s Go Crazy<\/em>, about the making of <em>Purple Rain<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/04\/22\/opinions\/prince-eight-things-to-know-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eight things to know about Prince, from Van Jones, including information about his philanthropy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/lists\/15-great-prince-songs-that-were-hits-for-other-artists-20160421\" target=\"_blank\">Fifteen Prince songs that were hits for other artists<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Princely humor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/2871836\/best-prince-memes\/?xrs=_s.tw_news\" target=\"_blank\">Prince memes were so great that even Prince shared them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/23\/simpsons-prince-episode\/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#qZC6f6EBaqqQ\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Simpsons<\/em> never got to make its Prince episode<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2016\/04\/21\/prince-princetweets2u-interview\" target=\"_blank\">An interview with the guy<\/a> behind the highlarious Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrinceTweets2U\" target=\"_blank\">@PrinceTweets2U<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Game: Blouses.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4303634\/prince-chappelles-show-sketch\/?xid=homepage\" target=\"_blank\">David Chappelle&#8217;s Prince sketch, based on a true story confirmed by Prince himself<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.papermag.com\/remembering-prince-the-king-of-internet-shade-1744684277.html\" target=\"_blank\">Epic side-eye gifs plus a lollipop video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/jimmy-fallons-pay-tribute-to-prince_us_571f6463e4b01a5ebde32f3a?ir=Entertainment&#038;section=us_entertainment&#038;utm_hp_ref=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s ping pong story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Of course, I treasure a Family Guy cutaway featuring Prince on <em>The Price Is Right<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_32621\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ThqtAg2g8Oo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32621\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32621\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/familyguy.jpg\" alt=\"Click and maybe you'll get the video unless YouTube has taken it down.\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/familyguy.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/familyguy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click and maybe you&#8217;ll get the video unless YouTube has taken it down.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally, in a class by itself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/04\/princes-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-guitar-solo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prince&#8217;s &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps&#8221; guitar solo<\/a> from the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to George Harrison. (<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/what-wendy-wore-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Someone tell Steve Miller that SOMETHING good came out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/rockhall.com\/inductees\/prince\/transcript\/prince-accepts-his-induction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prince himself was inducted into the Hall of Fame the same year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6SFNW5F8K9Y\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating! Another icon gone too soon. Prince June 7, 1958 \u2013 April 21, 2016 Embed from Getty Images Just yesterday, I&#8217;d been reassured about Prince&#8217;s health after reading that he&#8217;d appeared before fans on Saturday to show them that he was okay after being hospitalized for the flu. I was checking up on him because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/rip-prince\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"category-obits","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32570"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32750,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32570\/revisions\/32750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}