{"id":6213,"date":"2026-03-26T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/dash-crofts-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:08:55","slug":"dash-crofts-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/dash-crofts-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Summer Breeze&#8217; Singer Dash Crofts Dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dash Crofts, best known for creating the hit song, &#8220;Summer Breeze,&#8221; as a member of Seals &#038; Croft&#8221; has died &#8230; TMZ has learned. A family member tells TMZ &#8230; Crofts died Wednesday from complications of a heart surgery. No plans for a memorial\u2026<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dash Crofts, best known for creating the hit song, &#8220;Summer Breeze,&#8221; as a member of Seals &#038; Croft&#8221; has died&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-6213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}