{"id":1404,"date":"2021-05-28T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2021-05-28T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:22:40","slug":"millie-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Millie Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Millicent Dolly May Small<\/b>\u00a0<a title=\"Order of Distinction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_Distinction\">CD<\/a>\u00a0(6 October 1947\u00a0\u2013 5 May 2020) was a Jamaican singer and songwriter, best known for her 1964 recording of &#8220;<a title=\"My Boy Lollipop\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Boy_Lollipop\">My Boy Lollipop<\/a>&#8220;, which reached number two in both the\u00a0<a title=\"UK Singles Chart\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_Singles_Chart\">UK Singles Chart<\/a>\u00a0and the US\u00a0<a title=\"Billboard Hot 100\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\"><i>Billboard<\/i>\u00a0Hot 100<\/a>. On her UK records, she was usually credited\u00a0mononymously\u00a0as\u00a0<b>Millie<\/b>. She was the Caribbean&#8217;s first international recording star, and its most successful female performer.<sup id=\"cite_ref-rc_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Millie_Small\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millicent Dolly May Small\u00a0CD\u00a0(6 October 1947\u00a0\u2013 5 May 2020) was a Jamaican singer and songwriter, best known for her 1964 recording of &#8220;My Boy Lollipop&#8220;, which reached number two in both the\u00a0UK Singles Chart\u00a0and the US\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100. On her UK records, she was usually credited\u00a0mononymously\u00a0as\u00a0Millie. She was the Caribbean&#8217;s first international recording star, and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-1404","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\/1404","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=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}