{"id":387517,"date":"2026-07-27T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387517\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:47:11","slug":"how-did-you-become-a-deadhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387517\/","title":{"rendered":"How did you become a Deadhead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785145631_692_.webp\" alt=\"How did you become a fan of the Grateful Dead?\"\/>How did you become a fan of the Grateful Dead?  (Deanne Fitzmaurice)<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Aug. 1, NPR Music will publish a week-long list of stories and podcast episodes exploring the legacy and future of the Grateful Dead fandom. And we want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>We want to know: How did you become a fan of the Grateful Dead? Maybe it was a specific album that converted you, or you were transformed by a show you saw. And what would you say to someone who just doesn&#8217;t understand the band&#8217;s appeal? <\/p>\n<p>Record a voice memo telling us and email it to us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/npr\/2026\/07\/27\/nx-s1-5897507\/how-did-you-become-a-deadhead\/mailto:allsongs@npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">allsongs@npr.org<\/a>. We&#8217;ll share select stories and songs in an upcoming episode in the NPR Music feed.\u00a0Be sure to tell us your first name and where you&#8217;re calling from.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer, you can also tell us about it with the simple form below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How did you become a fan of the Grateful Dead? (Deanne Fitzmaurice) Beginning Aug. 1, NPR Music will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18991,35433,56,58,57,278],"class_list":["post-387517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-apple-news","tag-home-page-top-stories","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}