{"id":77652,"date":"2018-02-12T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77652"},"modified":"2018-02-12T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:55:40","slug":"vic-damone-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77652","title":{"rendered":"Vic Damone passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77653\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77653\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vic-Damone-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vic-Damone-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vic-Damone-273x333.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vic-Damone.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/center>Iconic crooner Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola) passed yesterday at the age of 86. He was discovered by Perry Como in an elevator where Damone worked when he stopped the elevator between floors and gave Como an unsolicited performance.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later, he was drafted into the Army where he served from 1951-1953, spending a year in Germany. According to a 1954 article in the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, even though he had two movies under his belt, he got no preferential treatment from the Army, claiming that he didn&#8217;t even sing for the first five  months that he was in Germany;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77654\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-77654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vic-Damone-article.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vic-Damone-article.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vic-Damone-article-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vic-Damone-article-306x333.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f9V2wF4DlZo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic crooner Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola) passed yesterday at the age of 86. He &hellip; <a title=\"Vic Damone passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77652\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vic Damone passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}