{"id":968,"date":"2006-03-17T23:48:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T03:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/03\/17\/i-love-the-goo-goo-dolls\/"},"modified":"2006-03-17T23:48:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T03:48:59","slug":"i-love-the-goo-goo-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/03\/i-love-the-goo-goo-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"I love the Goo Goo Dolls!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some research on our historic Broadway Fillmore area and stumbled upon some info\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>As Chris told all of us a while ago John Rzeznik grew up on\u00a0the East Side, but here\u2019s some info you may not of known\u2026\u2026.. <\/p>\n<table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=\"90%\" border=0>\n<tbody>\n<tr vAlign=top>\n<td width=\"80%\">\n<dl>\n<dt class=ch>\n<dt class=ch>Trivia <\/p>\n<dd>\n<p class=biopar>The Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 song \u201cBroadway\u201d was written about Buffalo, John and Robby\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=biopar>Parents both died by the time he was 16; father from complications with alcoholism, mother from a heart attack. Raised by his four older sisters in hometown of Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n<p class=biopar>Is of Polish decent.<\/p>\n<p class=biopar>Beat a bout of writers block by writing the song \u2018Iris\u2019 after a viewing of City Of Angels.<\/p>\n<p class=biopar>Frontman of rockband The Goo Goo Dolls.<\/p>\n<p class=biopar>His longtime girlfriend is actress Adrienne Frantz.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some research on our historic Broadway Fillmore area and stumbled upon some info\u2026\u2026.. As Chris told all of us a while ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-fC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}