{"id":54,"date":"2012-09-02T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2012-09-02T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:58:07","slug":"hal-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Hal David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HAL-DAVID1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56\" title=\"HAL DAVID\" src=\"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HAL-DAVID1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"759\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HAL-DAVID1.jpg 759w, https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HAL-DAVID1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HAL-DAVID1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hal David, one of the most legendary songwriters in the history of popular music and one of my biggest heroes, has died.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid growing up , my mother would incessantly play the records of Dionne Warwick and the Carpenters. As a kid I couldn&#8217;t stand these records for &#8220;Old people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Only when I started to make records and write songs for real did I come to understand how great these songs and records are. Certainly among the greatest pop songs ever written.\u00a0 They hold up decades later.<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Bacharach-David, Motown.\u00a0 No Arguments, No Debate&#8230;&#8230;.The Top of the Pyramid.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone that is involved in the big time of the song business and music publishing in pop music, is standing on the shoulders of Hal David.<\/p>\n<p>I bow down to Hal David. I will never come close.<\/p>\n<p>George Glennon, September 2, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hal David, one of the most legendary songwriters in the history of popular music and one of my biggest heroes, has died. When I was a kid growing up , my mother would incessantly play the records of Dionne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/?p=54\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}