{"id":6586,"date":"2011-05-12T14:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2011-05-12T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:49:16","slug":"remembering-bob-marley-three-decades-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Bob Marley: Three Decades After His Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 11 marked the 30th anniversary of the death of iconic musical and Rastafarian figure, <strong>Bob Marley<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marley<\/strong> rose to prominence as the founding member of the reggae outfit <strong>The Wailing Wailers<\/strong> \u2013 eventually changed to <strong>Bob Marley and The Wailers<\/strong> \u2013 in the early sixties.<\/p>\n<p>The group would go on to establish themselves as one of Jamaica&#8217;s hottest acts.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief stay in America and a rearranging of the group, <strong>Marley<\/strong> moved back to Jamaica and reformed the band, reestablishing themselves with wildly popular songs steeped in Rastafarian rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>In 1980, after becoming the most significant reggae artist of all time, <strong>Marley <\/strong>was diagnosed with cancer.\u00a0 After battling the disease for eight months, <strong>Marley<\/strong> succumbed in a Miami hospital on May 11, 1981. However, his message of peace will forever live on through his timeless music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 11 marked the 30th anniversary of the death of iconic musical and Rastafarian figure, Bob Marley. Marley rose to prominence as the founding member of the reggae outfit The Wailing Wailers \u2013 eventually changed to Bob Marley and The Wailers \u2013 in the early sixties. The group would go on to establish themselves as [&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-6586","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\/6586","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=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}