{"id":3939,"date":"2025-09-20T19:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/20\/sonny-curtis-rock-n-roller-who-penned-mary-tyler-moore-show-theme-dies-at-88\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:23:55","slug":"sonny-curtis-rock-n-roller-who-penned-mary-tyler-moore-show-theme-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/20\/sonny-curtis-rock-n-roller-who-penned-mary-tyler-moore-show-theme-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Curtis, rock &#8216;n&#8217; roller who penned &lsquo;Mary Tyler Moore Show&rsquo; theme, dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Crickets in 2012, died Friday, his wife of more than a half-century, Louise Curtis, confirmed to The Associated Press.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Crickets in 2012, died Friday, his wife of more than a half-century, Louise Curtis, confirmed to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}