{"id":262,"date":"2026-08-30T22:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2026-08-30T22:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:12:51","slug":"the-hardest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/30\/the-hardest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Hardest Day\u201d (from my new album, \u201cExcept for Me,\u201d which is dropping online on September 1, 2026) is dedicated to the late Lolly Vegas, leader of the band Redbone, my neighbor, and best friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lolly was the brother I found next door. I was compelled to write about the laughter, heartbreak, wisdom, music, and love that we shared for 11 years. My book &#8220;Come and Get Your Love &#8211; The Brother Life Gave Me&#8221; is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Come-Get-Your-Love-Brotherhood-ebook\/dp\/B0H2D46BGX\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=UWN6N&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.ab290b2d-1aa9-4d77-8fa9-648e0b580a87&amp;pf_rd_p=ab290b2d-1aa9-4d77-8fa9-648e0b580a87&amp;pf_rd_r=135-3348381-7862144&amp;pd_rd_wg=ifl28&amp;pd_rd_r=f3ef5c28-f127-4c63-8eae-c9c860df1130\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Come-Get-Your-Love-Brotherhood-ebook\/dp\/B0H2D46BGX\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=UWN6N&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.ab290b2d-1aa9-4d77-8fa9-648e0b580a87&amp;pf_rd_p=ab290b2d-1aa9-4d77-8fa9-648e0b580a87&amp;pf_rd_r=135-3348381-7862144&amp;pd_rd_wg=ifl28&amp;pd_rd_r=f3ef5c28-f127-4c63-8eae-c9c860df1130\">Amazon <\/a>in paperback and Kindle eBook formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like an autographed copy of the book PLUS a free download of \u201cThe Hardest Day,\u201d please <a href=\"mailto:spisani@msn.com\">contact me directly.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Come_And_Get_Your_Love_Book_Trailer-4.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hardest Day\u201d (from my new album, \u201cExcept for Me,\u201d which is dropping online on September 1, 2026) is dedicated to the late Lolly Vegas, leader of the band Redbone, my neighbor, and best friend. Lolly was the brother I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/30\/the-hardest-day\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hardest Day<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpisani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}