{"id":35313,"date":"2021-08-16T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/a-linchpin-tributes-paid-after-new-zealand-hip-hop-artist-louie-knuxx-dies-in-melbourne"},"modified":"2021-08-16T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T03:31:18","slug":"a-linchpin-tributes-paid-after-new-zealand-hip-hop-artist-louie-knuxx-dies-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35313","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A linchpin\u2019: Tributes paid after New Zealand hip hop artist Louie Knuxx dies in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of the musician, who also mentored young people, have described him as a \u2018kind, generous person\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Tributes are pouring in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> hip-hop artist Louie Knuxx, whose real name is Todd Williams, after he died of a heart attack, in Melbourne on Friday morning. He was 42.<\/p>\n<p>He was running on a treadmill in his home gym when he died, his family said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/a-linchpin-tributes-paid-after-new-zealand-hip-hop-artist-louie-knuxx-dies-in-melbourne\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of the musician, who also mentored young people, have described him as a \u2018kind, generous person\u2019 Tributes are pouring in for New Zealand hip-hop artist Louie Knuxx, whose real name is Todd Williams, after he died of a heart attack, in Melbourne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,71,425,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-culture","category-music","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313\/revisions\/35314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}