{"id":29810,"date":"2014-10-26T18:45:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T10:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29810"},"modified":"2014-10-26T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T08:28:07","slug":"musician-john-denver-awarded-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-17-years-after-death-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/26\/musician-john-denver-awarded-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-17-years-after-death-in-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician John Denver awarded Hollywood Walk of Fame star 17 years after death in plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29811\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_1991716.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29811\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_1991716.jpg\" alt=\"John Denver in Concert in Springfield, Massachusetts. Steve Broer \/ Shutterstock.com.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_1991716.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_1991716-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_1991716-900x719.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Denver in Concert in Springfield, Massachusetts. Steve Broer \/ Shutterstock.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Things are a little sunnier on the Hollywood Walk of Fame following the posthumous unveiling of a star for John Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSunshine on My Shoulders\u201d singer received the walk\u2019s 2,531st star on Friday, 17 years after his death.<\/p>\n<p>Denver\u2019s son, Zak Deutschendorf, and daughter, Jesse Belle Denver, attended the unveiling.<\/p>\n<p>Denver rose to fame in the 1970s with a series of sunny, optimistic songs that included \u201cRocky Mountain High,\u201d \u201cThank God I\u2019m a Country Boy\u201d and \u201cAnnie\u2019s Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He died in a 1997 plane crash at age 53.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s unveiling coincided with the opening of a Hollywood exhibition of photos called \u201cSweet Sweet Life: The Photographic Works of John Denver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The musician\u2019s photos will be on display at Hollywood\u2019s Substrate Gallery for the next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Things are a little sunnier on the Hollywood Walk of Fame following the posthumous unveiling of a star for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}