{"id":887056,"date":"2026-01-22T20:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/i-bought-my-first-hofner-bass-in-the-60s-i-have-loved-it-ever-since-paul-mccartney-pays-tribute-to-hofner-as-the-legendary-german-brands-future-hangs-in-the-balan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:23:36","slug":"i-bought-my-first-hofner-bass-in-the-60s-i-have-loved-it-ever-since-paul-mccartney-pays-tribute-to-hofner-as-the-legendary-german-brands-future-hangs-in-the-balan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/i-bought-my-first-hofner-bass-in-the-60s-i-have-loved-it-ever-since-paul-mccartney-pays-tribute-to-hofner-as-the-legendary-german-brands-future-hangs-in-the-balan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI bought my first H\u00f6fner bass in the \u201960s. I have loved it ever since\u201d: Paul McCartney pays tribute to H\u00f6fner as the legendary German brand\u2019s future hangs in the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having played a H\u00f6fner 500\/1 Violin Bass since 1961, the Beatles icon is saddened to learn of the German brand&#8217;s plight&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/gear\/guitars\/paul-mccartney-reacts-to-hofner-financial-troubles\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Clora Wiers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having played a H\u00f6fner 500\/1 Violin Bass since 1961, the Beatles icon is saddened to learn of the German brand&#8217;s plight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25433,147633,192],"tags":[6168,147632],"class_list":{"0":"post-887056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bought","8":"category-hofner","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-bought","11":"tag-hofner"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}