{"id":4002,"date":"2022-07-28T16:31:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:58:59","slug":"hezron-sings-for-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4002","title":{"rendered":"Hezron Sings for the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned that not much is being done in terms of child welfare in Jamaica, singer Hezron appeals to the country\u2019s legislators for more effective programs in <strong><em>\u2018Save The Children\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, one of his latest songs.<\/p>\n<p>Recently released by Tad\u2019s International Record, <strong><em>\u2018Save The Children\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is accompanied by a touching video depicting the innocence of childhood and diversity of a modern society.\u00a0 According to the veteran artist, \u201cToo many times people turn a blind eye or turn away and push things under the rug. Accountability is the one major change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>In March, the National Children\u2019s Registry in Jamaica reported that just\u00a0over 4,530 cases of child neglect were filed with that organization between July 2021 and March.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their figures also showed 2,524 reports of physical abuse, 2,078 cases of sexual abuse, 1,072 cases of emotional abuse, 24 alleged incidents of child trafficking, and 333 cases of child labor.<\/p>\n<p>Hezron believes legislators should adapt an uncompromising approach against child offenders.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d like to see the powers at be pay more serious attention to the elected organizations that\u2019s responsible for the care and protection of the children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Save The Children\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is the follow-up to <strong><em>\u2018Tik Tok\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song that did well for Hezron in South Florida and the tri-state area. It is expected to be part of his upcoming album, to be distributed by Tad\u2019s International Record.\u00a0 Hezron is scheduled to do several shows in Canada in late August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned that not much is being done in terms of child welfare in Jamaica, singer Hezron appeals to the country\u2019s legislators for more effective programs in \u2018Save The Children\u2019, one of his latest songs. Recently released by Tad\u2019s International Record, \u2018Save The Children\u2019 is accompanied by a touching video depicting the innocence of childhood and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}