{"id":44750,"date":"2026-04-18T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/18\/don-schlitz-n-c-native-and-country-songwriter-behind-such-hits-as-the-gambler-dies-at-73-spectrum-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:14:00","slug":"don-schlitz-n-c-native-and-country-songwriter-behind-such-hits-as-the-gambler-dies-at-73-spectrum-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/18\/don-schlitz-n-c-native-and-country-songwriter-behind-such-hits-as-the-gambler-dies-at-73-spectrum-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Schlitz, N.C. native and country song\u00adwriter behind such hits as &#8216;The Gambler,&#8217; dies at 73 &#8211; Spectrum News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxNSng4VVBWblpHNGFBTTczSWtZRnh5eEQ4TU05MkhRMk55WUVzcEs0SFpBOURSWG5rOWRXUU9hbmRlQW94LU9SSkpqRVpKeDczdWRXc05JUTdPbzBSeVBNWGlyZHg1bVVZaG1zcndBOGtkNmk4Rll4MFJyeWluX1FaaTk0SlBXUVFpRHB5Z2R4TUtmSGZNR3A0SEJ2MVU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Don Schlitz, N.C. native and country song\u00adwriter behind such hits as &#8216;The Gambler,&#8217; dies at 73<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Spectrum News<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Schlitz, N.C. native and country song\u00adwriter behind such hits as &#8216;The Gambler,&#8217; dies at 73&nbsp;&nbsp;Spectrum News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}