{"id":987,"date":"2007-01-13T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T00:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=987"},"modified":"2007-01-14T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T17:37:37","slug":"last-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Last Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=987\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Composer and saxophonist Michael Brecker who was 57, passed away this morning. He had been fighting myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of cancer for nearly 3 years. In the end he succumbed to a form of leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>He was, besides being the most remarkable tenor player I have ever heard, a wonderful father, a good husband, a thoughtful mentor and someone who I have the honor of calling a friend. His words would make me laugh and his playing would make me cry. He will be missed, often remembered and never forgotten.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/wire\/ny-bc-ny--obit-brecker0113jan13,0,4833721.story\">Michael Brecker 1949-2007 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer and saxophonist Michael Brecker who was 57, passed away this morning. He had been fighting myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of cancer for nearly 3 years. In the end he succumbed to a form of leukemia. He was, besides being the most remarkable tenor player I have ever heard, a wonderful father, a good husband, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-fV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}