{"id":551,"date":"2002-11-13T00:52:33","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T04:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2002\/11\/13\/\/"},"modified":"2002-11-13T00:52:33","modified_gmt":"2002-11-13T04:52:33","slug":"551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2002\/11\/551\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JohannesI have just received some very bad news… Johannes Kerkorrel, aka Johnny K, has died. Yesterday afternoon around 1.00pm SA time, someone found his body, 3km outside Kleinmond, hanging from a tree. According to friends close to his family, this was exactly the way a former lover of the music icon took his life some years ago.<\/p>\n

It is a sad day for South Africa, the music industry and the world.<\/p>\n

Johannes helped to pioneer the new wave of South African Music that started in the mid-eighties, and although often not too popular with the ‘older and more conservative folks’, always managed to get his point across. However and inevitably for a man with his talent, his music soon became appreciated and accepted (even fashionable) to the point where he developed into a national icon.<\/p>\n

For those who would like to reminisce, visit here<\/a> to check out the albums or here<\/a> for a slighty longer history (starting at the Voelvry days). Unfortunately both these links are in Afrikaans.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have just received some very bad news… Johannes Kerkorrel, aka Johnny K, has died. Yesterday afternoon around 1.00pm SA time, someone found his body, 3km outside Kleinmond, hanging from a tree. According to friends close to his family, this was exactly the way a former lover of the music icon took his life some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}