{"id":668,"date":"2006-10-10T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=668"},"modified":"2006-10-10T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T08:05:00","slug":"buck_oneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/10\/buck_oneil\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck O&#8217;Neil"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve seen men lose 50 years in just a few hours. Baseball is better than sex. It is better than music, although I do believe jazz comes in a close second. It does fill you up.<br \/>\n&#8211;John Jordan &#8220;Buck&#8221; O&#8217;Neil, Jr. (1911-2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. O&#8217;Neil died last Friday at 94.  He was a star of the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues, the first black coach in the majors and a central figure in Ken Burns&#8217; 1994 PBS film <em>Baseball<\/em>. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mftjazz.com\/\"target=:_blank\">Russ Neff <\/a>for calling the O&#8217;Neil quote to our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen men lose 50 years in just a few hours. Baseball is better than sex. It is better than music, although I do believe jazz comes in a close second. It does fill you up. &#8211;John Jordan &#8220;Buck&#8221; O&#8217;Neil, Jr. (1911-2006) Mr. O&#8217;Neil died last Friday at 94. He was a star of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}