{"id":1264,"date":"2021-05-07T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:11:28","slug":"1264-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Ernie Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smith was born in Kingston in May 1945 and raised in\u00a0St. Ann\u00a0and\u00a0May Pen. <sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner1402_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Campbell_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>His father played guitar and bought him an instrument when he was twelve. \u00a0He played guitar in the band The Vandals in\u00a0Claremont, St. Ann, after leaving school, and was nicknamed &#8216;Ernie&#8217; after\u00a0Ernest Ranglin.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner1402_2-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He initially (unsuccessfully) sought a career as a radio announcer, but then approached Federal Studios looking for work as a songwriter, ending up recording his songs himself.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Pelt_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Cooke1311_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-JG1402_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0His first recordings were not a success and Smith spent time working in\u00a0life insurance\u00a0before returning to the studio.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner1402_2-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernie_Smith_(singer)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith was born in Kingston in May 1945 and raised in\u00a0St. Ann\u00a0and\u00a0May Pen. His father played guitar and bought him an instrument when he was twelve. \u00a0He played guitar in the band The Vandals in\u00a0Claremont, St. Ann, after leaving school, and was nicknamed &#8216;Ernie&#8217; after\u00a0Ernest Ranglin.\u00a0He initially (unsuccessfully) sought a career as a radio announcer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-icons","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}