{"id":10297,"date":"2025-12-27T23:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10297"},"modified":"2025-12-27T23:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:44:51","slug":"sad-news-about-george-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10297","title":{"rendered":"Sad news about George Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>George Strait suffered a double loss with the death of longtime manager Erv Woolsey, 80, who helped shape his career from the early 1980s, and Gene Elders, the fiddle and mandolin player whose sound defined Strait\u2019s live shows. Woolsey believed in Strait\u2019s traditional style when trends shifted, while Elders gave the music its western soul. Their passing marks the end of an era, leaving Strait to carry their shared legacy forward alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Strait suffered a double loss with the death of longtime manager Erv Woolsey, 80, who helped shape his career from the early 1980s, and Gene Elders, the fiddle and mandolin player whose sound defined Strait\u2019s live shows. Woolsey believed in Strait\u2019s traditional style when trends shifted, while Elders gave the music its western soul. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}