{"id":7855,"date":"2012-12-12T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2012-12-12T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:04:27","slug":"gentle-soul-ravi-shankar-rest-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/gentle-soul-ravi-shankar-rest-in-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle soul ~ Ravi Shankar rest in peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/files\/2012\/12\/Ravi-ShankarAnoushka1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7858\" src=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/files\/2012\/12\/Ravi-ShankarAnoushka1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/files\/2012\/12\/Ravi-ShankarAnoushka1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/files\/2012\/12\/Ravi-ShankarAnoushka1.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indian music legend Ravi Shankar, the man former Beatle George Harrison hailed as \u201cthe godfather of world music,\u201d died Tuesday night in San Diego&#8217;s\u00a0Scripps Memorial Hospital.. He was 92 and had been a resident of Encinitas, a suburb north of San Diego, since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued Tuesday night by the Ravi Shankar Foundation,\u00a0last Thursday he underwent heart-valve replacement surgery, which \u2013 while successful \u2013 he was unable to recover from, his family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shankar\u2019s death comes just six days after he earned his most recent Grammy Award nomination for Best World Music Album, a category in which his daughter and prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Anoushka, 31, is also nominated. His other singer-songwriter daughter, Norah Jones, is a multiple Grammy Award-winner in her own right. Anoushka and her mother, Sukanya Shankar, were at Ravi Shankar&#8217;s bedside when he died Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with heavy hearts we write to inform you that Pandit Ravi Shankar, husband, father, and musical soul, passed away today,&#8221; said a family statement. &#8220;We were at his side when he passed away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The office of India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also confirmed the death, calling Shankar a &#8220;national treasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Indian music legend Ravi Shankar, the man former Beatle George Harrison hailed as \u201cthe godfather of world music,\u201d died Tuesday night in San Diego&#8217;s\u00a0Scripps Memorial Hospital.. He was 92 and had been a resident of Encinitas, a suburb north of San Diego, since 1992. &nbsp; According to a statement \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/gentle-soul-ravi-shankar-rest-in-peace\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5639,13,8],"tags":[4492],"class_list":["post-7855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-posts","category-people","category-spirituality","tag-ravi-shankar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7859,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}