{"id":3223,"date":"2013-06-05T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/05\/sub-pop-records-founder-has-parkinsons-says-hes-grateful-to-the-disease\/"},"modified":"2013-06-05T08:46:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:46:37","slug":"sub-pop-records-founder-has-parkinsons-says-hes-grateful-to-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/06\/05\/sub-pop-records-founder-has-parkinsons-says-hes-grateful-to-the-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub Pop Records Founder Has Parkinson&#8217;s; Says He&#8217;s &#8216;Grateful to the Disease&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/8c\/Sub_Pop_logo.png\/200px-Sub_Pop_logo.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"99\" \/><br \/>Jonathan Poneman, the co-founder of Seattle&#8217;s Sub Pop Records, who helped launch such seminal bands as Nirvana and Soundgarden, among others, announced May 31 that he has Parkinson&#8217;s, the degenerative nervous system disease that also struck Michael J. Fox, Pauline Kael, and Bob Hoskins.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As ironic as it sounds, I am truly grateful to the disease,\u201d Poneman told Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur. &#8220;My love of life and its precious elements became more vivid at the thought of seeing them fade away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Poneman, who said the illness can make him feel &#8220;like the Tin Man without any oil&#8221; and &#8220;a human bowling pin,&#8221; remains a driving force of the still-vital Seattle music scene along with his record label, which also helped make The Shins, The Postal Service and Iron and Wine famous.<\/p>\n<p>To diminish his symptoms, Poneman replaced his Sub Pop desk chair with a stationary bike.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Poneman, the co-founder of Seattle&#8217;s Sub Pop Records, who helped launch such seminal bands&#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-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}