{"id":7177,"date":"2017-11-30T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:54:43","slug":"indy-500-legend-friend-of-purdue-bands-orchestras-jim-nabors-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/indy-500-legend-friend-of-purdue-bands-orchestras-jim-nabors-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Indy 500 Legend &amp; friend of Purdue &#8220;All-American&#8221; Marching Band, Jim Nabors, Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Purdue \u201cAll-American\u201d Marching Band lost a very dear friend today. Jim Nabors was arguably the most historic figure of the Indianapolis 500 since 1972. In 2014, Nabors sang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8FQEgTQbnTo\"><em>Back Home Again in Indiana <\/em><\/a>in the pre-race festivities for his 36<sup>th<\/sup> and final time. The Purdue \u201cAll-American\u201d Marching Band had the incredible honor to accompany him on the famous song year after year. Thanks for the memories Jim! You will be dearly missed.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the life, accomplishments, and legacy of Jim Nabors, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimnabors.com\">www.jimnabors.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Purdue \u201cAll-American\u201d Marching Band lost a very dear friend today. Jim Nabors was arguably the most historic figure of the Indianapolis 500 since 1972. In 2014, Nabors sang Back Home Again in Indiana in the pre-race festivities for his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15747,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/15747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}