{"id":3912,"date":"2022-07-20T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2022-07-28T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:14:49","slug":"dancehall-deejay-merciless-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3912","title":{"rendered":"Dancehall Deejay Merciless Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #0e101a;\">Popular dancehall deejay Merciless, was found dead on Tuesday afternoon at a motel off Beechwood Avenue in Kingston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #0e101a;\">Born Leonard Bartley, Merciless, who celebrated his 51st birthday on July 1, was known for the songs\u00a0<em><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif;\">\u2018Lend Out Mi Mercy\u2019<\/span><\/b><\/em>,<em><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif;\">\u00a0\u2018Mr. Whodini\u2019<\/span><\/b><\/em>, and\u00a0<em><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif;\">\u2018Mama Cooking\u2019<\/span><\/b><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #0e101a;\">Reports are that Bartley had visited the motel to stay after he made the trip to Kingston from his home parish of Clarendon. Before his passing, the dancehall veteran had complained of not feeling well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #0e101a;\">The hotel where he was found dead is the entertainer&#8217;s place of choice whenever he visited Kingston. A representative confirmed that the entertainer had checked into the hotel alone and was found dead in a room by staff members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articlebody\" style=\"margin-top: 0cm; line-height: 150%; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #212529;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articlebody\" style=\"margin-top: 0cm; line-height: 150%; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; color: #212529;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular dancehall deejay Merciless, was found dead on Tuesday afternoon at a motel off Beechwood Avenue in Kingston. \u00a0 Born Leonard Bartley, Merciless, who celebrated his 51st birthday on July 1, was known for the songs\u00a0\u2018Lend Out Mi Mercy\u2019,\u00a0\u2018Mr. Whodini\u2019, and\u00a0\u2018Mama Cooking\u2019. \u00a0 Reports are that Bartley had visited the motel to stay after he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-3912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912","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=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}