{"id":179494,"date":"2010-01-14T08:18:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=88699"},"modified":"2010-01-14T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T13:18:14","slug":"teddy-pendergrass-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/179494","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Pendergrass Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R&#038;B singing legend Teddy Pendergrass has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/people\/2010-01-14-pendergrass-obit_N.htm\">died<\/a>. The velvet-voiced &#8217;70s crooner &#8212; who rose to the top of the charts with panty-dropper like &#8220;Somebody Loves You Back,&#8221; &#8220;Love TKO,&#8221; and &#8220;Turn Off The Lights&#8221; &#8212; lost his battle against colon cancer at a surburban Philadelphia hospital on Wednesday. He was 59. Teddy was paralyzed from the waist down after he crashed his Rolls Royce into a tree in a car accident in 1982, but he continued to record and even released a hit album in 1990. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IX93gBhTAnM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IX93gBhTAnM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>His son, Teddy Pendergrass II said, <em>&#8220;He will live on through his music.&#8221;<\/em> In recent years, Pendergrass had invested his energy into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teddypendergrassalliance.org\/\">creating a charity<\/a> to help victims of spinal cord injuries, like his own.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got to do something about this darn cancer. Still praying for a cure. Rest in Peace, Teddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R&#038;B singing legend Teddy Pendergrass has died. The velvet-voiced &#8217;70s crooner &#8212; who rose to the top of the charts with panty-dropper like &#8220;Somebody Loves You Back,&#8221; &#8220;Love TKO,&#8221; and &#8220;Turn Off The Lights&#8221; &#8212; lost his battle against colon cancer at a surburban Philadelphia hospital on Wednesday. He was 59. Teddy was paralyzed from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}