{"id":110776,"date":"2016-01-15T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T10:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=110776"},"modified":"2016-01-15T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T12:15:42","slug":"is-69-the-new-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2016\/01\/15\/is-69-the-new-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Is 69 the new 27?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This club includes the likes of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse and Jim Morrison.<br \/>\nCould this year be the start of a new club, the 69\u2019s club?<br \/>\nTwo great talents have died this week, both suffering from cancer.<br \/>\nBoth David Bowie and Alan Rickman lost their battle with this disease, leaving a hole in the hearts of their family, friends and fans.<br \/>\nAlan Rickman became one of Britain&#8217;s best-loved acting stars thanks to roles including Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films and Hans Gruber in Die Hard.<br \/>\nHarry Potter author, JK Rowling, led the tributes, describing him as &#8220;a magnificent actor and a wonderful man&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boksburgadvertiser.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/01\/severus-snape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-253979\" src=\"https:\/\/boksburgadvertiser.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/01\/severus-snape-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"severus snape\" width=\"414\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>David Bowie died after an 18-month battle with cancer, which he concealed as he continued to work on a musical stage production, Lazarus, and his final album.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110820\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boksburgadvertiser.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/01\/david-bowie-2-Medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-253980\" src=\"https:\/\/boksburgadvertiser.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/01\/david-bowie-2-Medium-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"David Bowie live at Hammersmith Odeon on Ziggy Stardust tour.\" width=\"421\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Bowie live at Hammersmith Odeon on Ziggy Stardust tour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='a9d4b5b83dcf203002fdadcab36762d0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all heard of the 27\u2019s club, stars who tragically lost their lives at such a tender age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686,8097],"tags":[9398,9386,2037,1409,9399,3092],"class_list":["post-110776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","category-lifestyle-and-health","tag-27-club","tag-alan-rickman","tag-cancer","tag-celebrities","tag-david-bowie","tag-death"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Lifestyle and Health"},"tag_labels":["27 club","alan rickman","Cancer","celebrities","david bowie","death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}