{"id":2053,"date":"2022-10-12T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2022-10-12T08:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:21:37","slug":"the-day-john-denver-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"The Day John Denver Died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 12 October 1997 American singer-songwriter John Denver died at age 53 in a single-fatality crash while piloting a recently purchased light plane. He was a pilot with over 2,700 hours of experience. Post-accident investigation&nbsp;showed that the leading cause of the accident was Denver&#8217;s inability to switch fuel tanks during flight. John Denver had four number one hits on the U.S.&nbsp;Billboard&nbsp;Hot 100&nbsp;singles chart. He recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he composed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulders (from The Wildlife Concert)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g5sbTHMP0Ig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 October 1997 American singer-songwriter John Denver died at age 53 in a single-fatality crash while piloting a recently purchased light plane. He was a pilot with over 2,700 hours of experience. Post-accident investigation&nbsp;showed that the leading cause of the accident was Denver&#8217;s inability to switch fuel tanks during flight. John Denver had four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-john-denver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}