{"id":98116,"date":"2025-08-26T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98116\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:55:08","slug":"today-in-history-august-27-this-little-black-dot-travelled-faster-than-anything-else-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98116\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History &#8211; August 27: This little black dot travelled faster than anything else on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 27, 1990, American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, right, and four others were killed in a helicopter crash in East Troy, Wisconsin after playing in a concert.<\/p>\n<p>The \ufeffgifted guitarist was best known as the frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Although his mainstream career spanned just seven years, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians in blues music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 27, 1990, American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, right, and four others were killed in a helicopter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-98116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}