{"id":25511,"date":"2026-02-08T15:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/?p=25511"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:07:27","slug":"greg-brown-founding-guitarist-of-cake-the-distance-songwriter-dies-after-brief-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/?p=25511","title":{"rendered":"Greg Brown, Founding Guitarist of Cake &amp; \u2018The Distance\u2019 Songwriter, Dies After \u2018Brief Illness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Greg Brown, founding guitarist of Cake and writer of the band\u2019s hit song \u201cThe Distance,\u201d has died.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u200bGreg Brown, founding guitarist of Cake and writer of the band\u2019s hit song \u201cThe Distance,\u201d has died.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rss.app\/articles\/cb4e791f6f6d729c04434f0c7ddfb987091111331b71b1eecfad8a0f968f6488ef0ab6553ac5803db4e1752a9d41588e329737a69c0f2f41da7f9d7ed29311698ee03aa7fbe729ecefc32ab025fd2b1d8b275b455705f8e0e5d67550ddc7b7b0c381c8d54618df4992cb3e3cc7\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Brown, founding guitarist of Cake and writer of the band\u2019s hit song \u201cThe Distance,\u201d has died. \u200bGreg Brown, founding guitarist of Cake and writer of the band\u2019s hit song \u201cThe Distance,\u201d has died.\u00a0\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}