{"id":1392537,"date":"2023-08-08T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1392537"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:00:15","slug":"dj-casper-creator-of-the-cha-cha-slide-dies-at-58-following-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/dj-casper-creator-of-the-cha-cha-slide-dies-at-58-following-cancer-diagnosis\/1392537\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Casper, creator of the &#8216;Cha Cha Slide,&#8217; dies at 58 following cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Casper, the creator of the infamous line dance hit &#8220;Cha Cha Slide,&#8221; died on Monday following a 2016 cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fbz_enclosure\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2023\/08\/08\/USAT\/70553468007-ap-obit-perry-1.jpg\" title=\"View image\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Like on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/_\/28\/769508711\/usatoday-NewsTopStories\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Pin it!\" href=\"http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/_\/29\/769508711\/usatoday-NewsTopStories,\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Tweet This\" href=\"http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/_\/24\/769508711\/usatoday-NewsTopStories\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Subscribe by email\" href=\"http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/_\/19\/769508711\/usatoday-NewsTopStories\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Subscribe by RSS\" href=\"http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/_\/20\/769508711\/usatoday-NewsTopStories\"><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/769508711\/0\/usatoday-newstopstories~DJ-Casper-creator-of-the-Cha-Cha-Slide-dies-at-following-cancer-diagnosis\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/769508711\/0\/usatoday-newstopstories~DJ-Casper-creator-of-the-Cha-Cha-Slide-dies-at-following-cancer-diagnosis\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Casper, the creator of the infamous line dance hit &#8220;Cha Cha Slide,&#8221; died on Monday following a 2016 cancer diagnosis. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u200bhttp:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/769508711\/0\/usatoday-newstopstories~DJ-Casper-creator-of-the-Cha-Cha-Slide-dies-at-following-cancer-diagnosis\/\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-5Qgh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}