{"id":1346,"date":"2006-09-20T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/09\/20\/rip-don-walser\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T19:29:50","slug":"rip-don-walser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/rip-don-walser\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Don Walser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donwalser.com\">Don Walser<\/a>, local country musician and yodeler extraordinaire, has died of complications from diabetes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/?ArID=171020\">according to News8Austin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don hadn&#8217;t played out for several years. I&#8217;m guessing it was due to his health. He had a recurring gig at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emosaustin.com\">Emo&#8217;s<\/a> back in the late 90&#8217;s, introducing &#8220;the kids&#8221; to some good old fashioned country music and yodeling with his Pure Texas Band. I saw him there a couple of times. He always had a smile and was a very personable guy. His death is a loss for the Austin music scene. He&#8217;ll be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Walser, local country musician and yodeler extraordinaire, has died of complications from diabetes according to News8Austin. Don hadn&#8217;t played out for several years. I&#8217;m guessing it was due to his health. He had a recurring gig at Emo&#8217;s back in the late 90&#8217;s, introducing &#8220;the kids&#8221; to some good old fashioned country music and <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/rip-don-walser\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-lI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}