{"id":27412,"date":"2022-05-27T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/?p=27412"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:21:13","slug":"rip-andrew-fletcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2022\/05\/27\/rip-andrew-fletcher\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Andrew Fletcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Andrew wasn&#8217;t as famous as the other members of Depeche Mode (Dave Gahan, Martin Gore or former founder Vince Clarke) but many said he was the glue to keep the band together. Not a small feat for a band that&#8217;s been around for 40-plus years and down to just three members; I figure they&#8217;ve had multiple drummers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although Depeche Mode wasn&#8217;t a band I cared for much in high school or college, I didn&#8217;t hate &#8217;em, they just weren&#8217;t my go to. They did grow on me in adulthood via WXRT when they followed up their hit album\u00a0<em>Violator\u00a0<\/em>with more &#8220;spiritual&#8221; material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Either way, thanks for everything Andrew! I&#8217;m sad to see you pass and it was too soon since I think your band had a few more great albums to make.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew wasn&#8217;t as famous as the other members of Depeche Mode (Dave Gahan, Martin Gore or former founder Vince Clarke) but many said he was the glue to keep the band together. Not a small feat for a band that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2022\/05\/27\/rip-andrew-fletcher\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,144,174,184],"class_list":["post-27412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-alternative","tag-eighties","tag-new-wave","tag-nineties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27413,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412\/revisions\/27413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}