{"id":1403,"date":"2017-09-03T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2017-09-04T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:00:08","slug":"walter-becker-1950-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Walter Becker 1950 &#8211; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/de_DE\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DonaldFagenMusic\/posts\/1757720350925022\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DonaldFagenMusic\/posts\/1757720350925022\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gepostet von <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DonaldFagenMusic\/\">Donald Fagen<\/a> am&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DonaldFagenMusic\/posts\/1757720350925022\">Sonntag, 3. September 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>We will perhaps try to post a better suited tribute or such tomorrow, but right now we&#8217;re just bummed out. Condolences to Walter&#8217;s family, close friends and the Steely Dan Band.<\/p>\n<p>If you seek solace or some sort of consolation, you can browse the many Instagram posts and comments (click image), or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandom.com\/thebluebook\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Bluebook<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd Rickie Lee Jones wrote a memorial for the Rolling Stone:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/read-rickie-lee-jones-poignant-tribute-to-walter-becker-w501078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/read-rickie-lee-jones-poignant-tribute-to-walter-becker-w501078<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/walterbecker\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1404 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/becker_instagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"997\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/becker_instagram.jpg 997w, https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/becker_instagram-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/becker_instagram-768x611.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We&#8230; Gepostet von Donald Fagen am&nbsp;Sonntag, 3. September 2017 We will perhaps try to post a better suited tribute or such tomorrow, but right now we&#8217;re just bummed out. Condolences to Walter&#8217;s family, close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walter Becker 1950 &#8211; 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}