{"id":71219,"date":"2020-06-27T20:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71219"},"modified":"2020-06-28T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T13:02:00","slug":"and-now-introducing-bobby-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/and-now-introducing-bobby-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"12. &#8220;And Now..&#8221; Introducing Bobby Digital!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd now\u2026\u201d So when they said today was the funeral of Bobby Digital\u2026 I thought it was the multifaceted rapper and not the reggae producer who passed from natural causes. Instantly I was transported to find out about this legendary icon I never knew. His favorite singer was Dennis Brown. \u201cMusic made to absorb\u201d from the youth to transition into the present day.\u00a0 I did not know all the songs he produced. I grew up in the states and I researched my roots in reggae also listening to hip-hop and rap fresh in my lexicon. So this poetry shout out is to all the \u201cBobby Digital\u201d fans alive and those who passed to the next phase of existence. Merci Beaucoup. Bless up\u2026 Thank you. RZA and Bobby Digital. Music is the education we all seek. jPs&#8230;I&#8217;m missing Quest Love tonight to write.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the first line of ,\u201cWho Was That Masked Man Anyway? By Avi (My reintro to the Wu, who knew!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd now\u2026\u201d So when they said today was the funeral of Bobby Digital\u2026 I thought it was the multifaceted rapper and not the reggae producer who passed from natural causes. Instantly I was transported to find out about this legendary icon I never knew. His&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72334,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71219\/revisions\/72334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}