{"id":555,"date":"2012-06-14T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2012-06-14T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:58:41","slug":"jeff-healey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Healey Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Jeffery Healey, known as Jeff, was born in Toronto, Canada on March 25th 1966.<\/p>\n<p>When he was one year old he developed retinoblastoma, a canacer of the eyes, and his eyes had to\u00a0be surgically removed.<\/p>\n<p>He began playing guitar at the age of 3, developing his incredible an dunique style (see the videos).<\/p>\n<p>He signed with Arista records in 1988 and his first album was <em>See the Light<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His band was featured in the Patrick Swayze film Road House (see Road House Blues video)<\/p>\n<p>Sadly Jeff died from his cancer on March 2nd 2008<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Healey\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Healey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffhealey.com\/\">http:\/\/www.jeffhealey.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Jeffery Healey, known as Jeff, was born in Toronto, Canada on March 25th 1966. When he was one year old he developed retinoblastoma, a canacer of the eyes, and his eyes had to\u00a0be surgically removed. He began playing guitar at the age of 3, developing his incredible an dunique style (see the videos). He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}