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Ken Baldwin, our Assistant principal bassist, and one of the best guys I’ve ever had the pleasure to know, passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 Godspeed, Ken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ken Baldwin, our Assistant principal bassist, and one of the best guys I’ve ever had the pleasure to know, passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 Godspeed, Ken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-jL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":165,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/10\/before-ken-made-pizza\/","url_meta":{"origin":1225,"position":0},"title":"before ken made pizza…","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This past summer I made the very wonderful acquaintance of Ken's Artisan Pizza on SE 28th St. It's a great place to have wonderful salads, artisan pizzas and appetizers of all kinds. 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