{"id":2009,"date":"2021-09-03T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2021-09-03T11:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:22:04","slug":"the-heptones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"The Heptones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Heptones<\/b>\u00a0are a Jamaican\u00a0rocksteady\u00a0and\u00a0reggae\u00a0vocal\u00a0trio\u00a0most active in the 1960s and early 1970s. They were one of the more significant trios of that era, and played a major role in the gradual transition between\u00a0ska\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Rocksteady\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocksteady\">rocksteady<\/a>\u00a0into reggae with their three-part\u00a0harmonies. The Heptones were contemporaries of the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Wailers\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wailers\">Wailers<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Maytals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maytals\">Maytals<\/a>, and every bit their equal in the mid-60&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Heptones\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heptones\u00a0are a Jamaican\u00a0rocksteady\u00a0and\u00a0reggae\u00a0vocal\u00a0trio\u00a0most active in the 1960s and early 1970s. They were one of the more significant trios of that era, and played a major role in the gradual transition between\u00a0ska\u00a0and\u00a0rocksteady\u00a0into reggae with their three-part\u00a0harmonies. The Heptones were contemporaries of the\u00a0Wailers\u00a0and the\u00a0Maytals, and every bit their equal in the mid-60&#8217;s. Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-2009","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\/2009","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=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}