{"id":1152,"date":"2026-01-11T02:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/bob-weir-co-founder-of-rock-group-the-grateful-dead-dies-at-age-78-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T02:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:33:28","slug":"bob-weir-co-founder-of-rock-group-the-grateful-dead-dies-at-age-78-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/bob-weir-co-founder-of-rock-group-the-grateful-dead-dies-at-age-78-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Weir, co-founder of rock group the Grateful Dead, dies at age 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rhythm guitarist helped guide the legendary jam band through decades of change and successVeteran rock musician Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead\u2019s rhythm guitarist who helped guide the legendary jam band through decades of change and success, has died at age 78, according to a statement posted to his verified Instagram account on Friday.He was diagnosed with cancer in July and \u201csuccumbed to underlying lung issues\u201d surrounded by loved ones, the statement said. It did not mention when or where he died. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhythm guitarist helped guide the legendary jam band through decades of change and successVeteran rock musician Bob Weir, the Grateful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}