{"id":4654,"date":"2011-03-17T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2011-03-17T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:34:15","slug":"reggae-artist-smiley-culture-dies-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4654","title":{"rendered":"Reggae Artist Smiley Culture Dies In Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; British media are reporting reggae star <strong>Smiley Culture<\/strong> has died during a police drug raid on his home.<\/p>\n<p>The London-born musician &#8212; whose real name is <strong>David Emmanuel<\/strong> &#8212; reportedly died from self-inflicted wounds Tuesday when police officers swooped on his home in east Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>The reggae singer had appeared before magistrates in September last year charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s police watchdog said Tuesday it had been called in to investigate an incident during which a 48-year-old man apparently suffered a stab wound and died. The watchdog said formal identification has not yet taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Culture shot to fame in the 1980s with hits including &#8220;Cockney Translation&#8221; and &#8220;Police Officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; British media are reporting reggae star Smiley Culture has died during a police drug raid on his home. The London-born musician &#8212; whose real name is David Emmanuel &#8212; reportedly died from self-inflicted wounds Tuesday when police officers swooped on his home in east Surrey. The reggae singer had appeared before magistrates in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}