{"id":4514,"date":"2014-07-24T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/24\/grateful-dead-lyricist-forced-to-tour-to-pay-medical-bills\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T06:27:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T06:27:16","slug":"grateful-dead-lyricist-forced-to-tour-to-pay-medical-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/07\/24\/grateful-dead-lyricist-forced-to-tour-to-pay-medical-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead Lyricist Forced to Tour to Pay Medical Bills\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0a\/Robert_Hunter_Town_Hall_2013-10-10.jpg\/220px-Robert_Hunter_Town_Hall_2013-10-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"292\" \/><br \/>Touring is fun, right?\u00a0 Not when you don\u2019t have a choice because you have medical bills to pay and publishing isn\u2019t paying enough anymore.\u00a0 Which is exactly the situation for 70-something Robert Hunter, the lyricist behind many Grateful Dead classics who simply can\u2019t depend on royalties from his famous songs anymore.  <!--more-->  <br \/>\u201cWhen I was in my sixties, it seemed like a good time to retire, and I didn\u2019t have a financial reason,\u201d Hunter told Rolling Stone.<br \/>\u201cBut I\u2019ve got medical bills to pay, so I\u2019m a working man again [laughs]. Last year I managed to have a nice hospitalization that should have been fatal. I had a spinal abscess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And this gets worse: during the abscess surgery, doctors also found bladder cancer and were forced into more surgery.\u00a0 All of which means this probably isn\u2019t the best time to hit the road.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s a lot I have to pay,\u201d Hunter continued.\u00a0 <br \/>\u201cI better make more money than one\u2019s able to make in publishing these days to take care of it.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt got me thinking I\u2019d better get on the road. So I booked a short tour to see if I could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touring is fun, right?\u00a0 Not when you don\u2019t have a choice because you have medical&#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-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","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=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}