{"id":905,"date":"2011-09-01T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/09\/01\/john-lord-thanks-the-fans\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T09:45:30","slug":"john-lord-thanks-the-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/09\/01\/john-lord-thanks-the-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lord thanks the fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonlord.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/jl_pod6915_2_500.jpg?w=199&amp;h=300\" border=\"0\" width=\"104\" height=\"157\" \/><br \/>Former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord, who recently revealed that he is fighting cancer, has released the following statement:  <!--more-->  <br \/>&#8220;Just a quick line or two from an absolutely overwhelmed, gratified and humbled musician.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your<br \/> responses to the news of my condition have touched my heart in a way <br \/>that has truly helped to make my life a better place to be than it had <br \/>occasionally threatened to become these last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your <br \/>wonderful messages wishing me strength and courage have given me even <br \/>more strength and courage \u2014 and so much more than you can ever know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I<br \/> read many of them with tears in my eyes, grateful for this cast-iron <br \/>proof of the innate goodness of the human being, and grateful to every <br \/>single one of you for your invaluable support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This message goes<br \/> out, too, to all the similarly wonderful folk on other websites whose <br \/>support has been equally warm and strong and I want you all to know how <br \/>greatly heartened and comforted I am by all this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The treatment continues and I am confident and being supported by my glorious family and an amazing group of friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See you soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jon Lord is recognized for his Hammond organ blues-rock playing and unique sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque <br \/>forms. He has most famously been a member of DEEP PURPLE, the band he co-founded in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Lord recently received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/jonlord.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord, who recently revealed that he is fighting cancer, has&#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-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}