{"id":3220,"date":"2023-11-06T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2023-11-06T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:43:19","slug":"dont-fear-the-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Fear The Reaper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;(Don&#8217;t Fear) The Reaper&#8221; is a song by American&nbsp;rock&nbsp;band&nbsp;&#8220;Blue \u00d6yster Cult&#8221;&nbsp;from the band&#8217;s 1976 album&nbsp;&#8220;Agents of Fortune.&#8221;&nbsp;This week in 1976 it became the band&#8217;s  hit when it peaked at number 12  on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA. The song was rumored to be about suicide, but it actually deals with the inevitability of death, and the belief that we should not fear it. &#8220;The Reaper&#8221; made it to number 7 in Canada and also charted in The UK and Ireland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blue Oyster Cult -  (Don&#039;t Fear) The Reaper (Album Version) (ReMastered) (1976) (HD)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f8L325a-e8k?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>&#8220;(Don&#8217;t Fear) The Reaper&#8221; is a song by American&nbsp;rock&nbsp;band&nbsp;&#8220;Blue \u00d6yster Cult&#8221;&nbsp;from the band&#8217;s 1976 album&nbsp;&#8220;Agents of Fortune.&#8221;&nbsp;This week in 1976 it became the band&#8217;s hit when it peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA. The song was rumored to be about suicide, but it actually deals with the inevitability of [&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":[358],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-blue-oyster-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","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=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}