{"id":308,"date":"1990-11-02T04:44:10","date_gmt":"1990-11-02T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/?p=308"},"modified":"2016-08-28T23:08:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T05:08:23","slug":"seattle-times-word-by-patrick-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/seattle-times-word-by-patrick-mcdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Times Tempo Section: Word by Patrick McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Remembered<\/a>Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone<\/h1>\n
\"November<\/a>

November 2, 1990<\/em> Seattle Times Tempo Section: Word column by Patrick McDonald
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is remembered in an interview in the December issue of Rip Magazine. Conducted by writer Michael Browning, the interview took place last March 15, one day before Wood was found unconscious from a heroin overdose. He died four days later when taken off life support systems.<\/p>\n

Wood is open about his drug problems, saying “I’m lucky to be sitting here.”He talks about getting out of rehab and insists he is clean. “I was a druggy until I went into treatment,” he says, “I’m not doing it anymore.” He’s upbeat and positive about MLB’s future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A companion piece includes an interview with Xana La Fuente, Wood’s girrIfriend, who found him unconscious. “It’s really cool and weird, ’cause he wrote so much religious stuff in the weeks prior to his death,” she is quoted as saying. “All these songs about heaven and dying.” Incidentally, the \"Seattle<\/a>same issue has articles on Queensryche and Alice in Chains.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone is remembered in an interview in the December issue of Rip Magazine. Conducted by writer Michael Browning, the interview took place last March 15, one day before Wood was found unconscious from a heroin overdose. He died four days later when taken off life support systems. Wood is open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33,3,6,12,25,24,23,26,4,32],"tags":[8,30,34,36,35],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alice-in-chains","category-andrew-wood","category-city-heat","category-mother-love-bone","category-music","category-paid-experience","category-pearl-jam","category-queensryche","category-rip-magazine","category-seattle","category-seattle-times","tag-andy-wood","tag-mother-love-bone","tag-patrick-mcdonald","tag-rip-magazine","tag-seattle-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}