{"id":1594,"date":"2011-04-01T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/2011\/04\/01\/im-still-loving-you-marvin\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:51:57","slug":"im-still-loving-you-marvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/im-still-loving-you-marvin\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m still loving you, Marvin…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that late-night scene from Love & Basketball<\/span> when Quincy finds his mother crying by the pool? If I recall correctly, his words to her were, “What’s wrong, Momma? That last time I saw you drink was the day that Marvin Gaye died.”<\/p>\n

Like many of you, I remember that day well. It was April Fool’s Day and I was just hoping and praying that the reports of his untimely death were some cruel, cruel joke. The more I prayed, the more I realized that it was true. I was crushed. Still am.<\/p>\n

So, although his birthday is tomorrow, I always think of Marvin on this day. After a months-long search for my I Want You<\/span> CD (yes<\/span>, I said CD!), I finally broke down and replaced it a few weeks back. I will be blasting it for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

Here’s a piece<\/a> I wrote on My Dear, Mr. Gaye<\/a> last year around this time. I’m still loving him, for sure, and I hope he’s resting easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember that late-night scene from Love & Basketball when Quincy finds his mother crying by the pool? If I recall correctly, his words to her were, “What’s wrong, Momma? That last time I saw you drink was the day that Marvin Gaye died.” Like many of you, I remember that day well. It was April… Read More »I’m still loving you, Marvin…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}