{"id":30880,"date":"2024-11-19T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-19-1988-bon-jovi-scored-their-third-1-with-bad-medicine\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:05:59","slug":"on-this-day-nov-19-1988-bon-jovi-scored-their-third-1-with-bad-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-19-1988-bon-jovi-scored-their-third-1-with-bad-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Nov. 19, 1988: Bon Jovi scored their third #1 with &#8216;Bad Medicine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-19\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Nov. 19, 1988 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bon Jovi<\/strong> topped the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100 chart with \u201cBad Medicine,\u201d the lead single from their fourth album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">New Jersey.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song, written by <strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong>, <strong>Richie Sambora<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Desmond Child<\/strong>, was the band\u2019s third #1 single following the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Slippery When Wet<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0tracks\u00a0\u201cYou Give Love A Bad Name\u201d and \u201cLiving On A Prayer,\u201d which were also written by the trio.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBad Medicine\u201d spent two weeks at #1 in the U.S. and also landed\u00a0in the top 10 in Australia, Canada, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Nov. 19, 1988 &#8230; Bon Jovi topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with \u201cBad Medicine,\u201d the lead single from their fourth album,\u00a0New Jersey. The song, written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora\u00a0and Desmond Child, was the band\u2019s third #1 single following the Slippery When Wet\u00a0tracks\u00a0\u201cYou Give Love<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-19-1988-bon-jovi-scored-their-third-1-with-bad-medicine\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}