{"id":5598,"date":"2023-03-10T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T10:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T10:08:05","slug":"linton-kwesi-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5598","title":{"rendered":"Linton Kwesi Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Linton Kwesi Johnson<\/b>\u00a0(born 24 August 1952), also known as\u00a0<b>LKJ<\/b>, is a Jamaica-born, British-based\u00a0dub poet\u00a0and activist. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the\u00a0Penguin Modern Classics series.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-Jaggi_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0His\u00a0performance poetry\u00a0involves the recitation of his own verse in\u00a0Jamaican patois\u00a0over\u00a0dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with reggae producer\/artist\u00a0Dennis Bovell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linton_Kwesi_Johnson\">Read More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linton Kwesi Johnson\u00a0(born 24 August 1952), also known as\u00a0LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based\u00a0dub poet\u00a0and activist. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the\u00a0Penguin Modern Classics series.\u00a0\u00a0His\u00a0performance poetry\u00a0involves the recitation of his own verse in\u00a0Jamaican patois\u00a0over\u00a0dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with reggae producer\/artist\u00a0Dennis Bovell. Read More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-5598","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\/5598","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=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5599,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/5599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}