{"id":30998,"date":"2024-12-09T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-9-1989-billy-joel-hit-1-with-we-didnt-start-the-fire\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:02:26","slug":"on-this-day-dec-9-1989-billy-joel-hit-1-with-we-didnt-start-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-9-1989-billy-joel-hit-1-with-we-didnt-start-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 9, 1989: Billy Joel hit #1 with &#8216;We Didn\u2019t Start The Fire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-09\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Dec. 9, 1989 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Billy Joel<\/strong> began a two-week run atop the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100 singles chart with \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start The Fire\u201d from his 11th studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Storm Front<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song has Billy listing off a series of important\u00a0events and happenings\u00a0that took place\u00a0from 1949, the year he was born,\u00a0to 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tune, which was nominated for a Grammy for Record of the Year, was Joel\u2019s third and final #1 single.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2023, rockers <strong>Fall Out Boy<\/strong> released their own updated version of \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start The Fire,\u201d chronicling events that happened between 1989 and 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Dec. 9, 1989 &#8230; Billy Joel began a two-week run atop the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start The Fire\u201d from his 11th studio album,\u00a0Storm Front. The song has Billy listing off a series of important\u00a0events and happenings\u00a0that took place\u00a0from 1949, the year he<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-9-1989-billy-joel-hit-1-with-we-didnt-start-the-fire\/\">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\/30998"}],"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=30998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}