{"id":3282,"date":"2022-04-21T20:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2022-04-21T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:46:07","slug":"buju-banton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Buju Banton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buju Banton was born in\u00a0<a title=\"Kingston, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\">Kingston<\/a>, Jamaica in an area known as Barbican Road, Kingston 8. Buju is a nickname given to him by his mother as a child.\u00a0<i>Banton<\/i>\u00a0is a Jamaican word that refers to someone who is a respected storyteller, and it was adopted by Myrie in tribute to the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Deejay (Jamaican)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deejay_(Jamaican)\">deejay<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Burro Banton\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burro_Banton\">Burro Banton<\/a>, whom he admired as a child. <sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson_10-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Buju emulated Burro&#8217;s rough vocals and forceful delivery, developing his own distinctive style. Buju&#8217;s mother was a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Higgler\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higgler\">higgler<\/a>, or street vendor, while his father worked as a labourer at a tile factory. He was the youngest of fifteen children born into a family that was directly descended from the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Maroon (people)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maroon_(people)\">Maroons<\/a> of Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buju_Banton\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buju Banton was born in\u00a0Kingston, Jamaica in an area known as Barbican Road, Kingston 8. Buju is a nickname given to him by his mother as a child.\u00a0Banton\u00a0is a Jamaican word that refers to someone who is a respected storyteller, and it was adopted by Myrie in tribute to the\u00a0deejay\u00a0Burro Banton, whom he admired as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-3282","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\/3282","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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}