{"id":43623,"date":"2016-02-25T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/43623\/a1531\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T09:40:16","slug":"a1531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/25\/a1531\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Geliefde minnesanger sterf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volgens sy broer, mnr. Louw Wessels, meer bekend as die sanger Alan Ladd, is hy aan hartversaking in sy slaap oorlede tydens \u2019n besoek aan sy suster, me. Susan Scheepers, in Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs kind het hy rumatiekkoors gehad en dit het maar nog altyd sy hart gepla.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hy was veral bekend vir sy grootste treffer, \u2018Was Ek Maar \u2019n Digter\u2019 en het ook groot treffers vir sangers soos Cora Marie, Johan Stemmet en Laurika Rauch geskryf.<\/p>\n<p>Mnr. Wessels s\u00ea sy broer sal in die familiekerkhof begrawe word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie begrafnis sal m\u00f4reoggend op \u2019n familielid se plaas tussen Swartruggens en Zeerust wees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kupido, een van die grootste liedjieskrywer in Suid-Afrika, was 62 jaar oud toe gesterf het en laat \u2019n leemte in die Afrikaanse musiekbedryf.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/z_5qktYIBDA' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die geliefde minnesanger, Kupido, die verhoognaam van Johan Wessels, is Maandagoggend, 22 Februarie 2016 in sy slaap oorlede.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":43622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Annie van Zyl","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}