{"id":715,"date":"2009-02-20T05:45:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=715"},"modified":"2009-02-20T05:45:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:45:26","slug":"happy-birthdaynevermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2009\/02\/20\/happy-birthdaynevermind\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday&#8230;Nevermind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_cobain\">Kurt Cobain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter who essentially founded the &#8220;grunge&#8221; music movement, was born in Hoquiam, Washington on this day in 1967. He started from humble beginnings, working a job as a school janitor, but he started playing in local rock bands. He spent most of this time living at various friends&#8217; houses and on the street, even occasionally sleeping under a bridge. In 1989, he and his bandmates saved up six hundred dollars to record their first album, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B0000035E7%26tag=fantasistnet%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B0000035E7%253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\"><em>Bleach<\/em><\/a>, under the name Nirvana. The boys signed to a major label in 1991 for their next album, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000003TA4%26tag=fantasistnet%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B000003TA4%253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\"><em>Nevermind<\/em><\/a>, and Cobain was shocked when it sold more than 10 million copies.<\/p>\n<p>He became internationally famous almost overnight, but Cobain hated being famous. He developed a heroin addiction that got worse and worse, and on April 5th of 1994 he committed suicide at his home in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of Kurt Cobain. The singer-songwriter who essentially founded the &#8220;grunge&#8221; music movement, was born in Hoquiam, Washington on this day in 1967. He started from humble beginnings, working a job as a school janitor, but he started playing in local rock bands. He spent most of this time living at various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crass-commerce","category-famous-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}