{"id":18327,"date":"2026-11-12T19:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/original-w-a-s-p-drummer-tony-richards-dead-at-69\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T19:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:20:53","slug":"original-w-a-s-p-drummer-tony-richards-dead-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/original-w-a-s-p-drummer-tony-richards-dead-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Original W.A.S.P. Drummer Tony Richards Dead at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Richards, the original drummer for heavy metal band W.A.S.P., has passed away at 69. No cause of death was given. His passing was announced by band leader and founder Blackie Lawless on W.A.S.P.\u2019s Instagram along with a memorial for the departed drummer. Lawless previously described Richards as a pivotal\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Please click the link below to read the full article.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Richards, the original drummer for heavy metal band W.A.S.P., has passed away at 69. No cause of death was given. His passing was announced by band leader and founder Blackie Lawless on W.A.S.P.\u2019s Instagram along with a memorial for the departed drummer. Lawless previously described Richards as a pivotal\u2026 Please click the link below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}