{"id":1265,"date":"2012-01-02T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/01\/02\/cancer-stricken-former-deep-purple-keyboardist-says-he-is-doing-well\/"},"modified":"2012-01-02T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:00:44","slug":"cancer-stricken-former-deep-purple-keyboardist-says-he-is-doing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/01\/02\/cancer-stricken-former-deep-purple-keyboardist-says-he-is-doing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer-Stricken Former DEEP PURPLE Keyboardist Says He Is &#8216;Doing Well&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonlord.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/img_2337_2.jpg?w=210&amp;h=140\" border=\"0\" width=\"156\" height=\"104\" \/><br \/>Former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord, who revealed this past summer that he was fighting cancer, has released the following statement:  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy<br \/>New Year to all of you and thank you so much for your wonderful, kind <br \/>and inspirational messages over these last few difficult months. I have <br \/>been mightily sustained by reading them and will continue to be so. You <br \/>are a very special lot indeed. I am doing well and I will be back with <br \/>more news and updates in the next week or so. In the meantime, party <br \/>hearty but look after yourselves. I wish you success and happiness, and <br \/>above all, I wish you health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jon Lord is recognized for <br \/>his Hammond organ blues-rock playing and unique sound and for his <br \/>pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms. He has <br \/>most famously been a member of DEEP PURPLE, the band he co-founded in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Lord earlier in the year received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>Source: rocknrolla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord, who revealed this past summer that he was fighting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}