{"id":8862,"date":"2025-12-12T16:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/reggae-icon-and-cultural-giant-jimmy-cliff-dead-at-81\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:50:34","slug":"reggae-icon-and-cultural-giant-jimmy-cliff-dead-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/reggae-icon-and-cultural-giant-jimmy-cliff-dead-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggae icon and &#039;cultural giant&#039; Jimmy Cliff dead at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/0400a3f2-0fce-11ea-b8fd-005056bf7c53\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/Jimmy%20Cliff_2012%20medaillon%20ok_0.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>Jimmy Cliff, the iconic reggae star who helped transform the island&#8217;s rhythmic music into a global cultural phenomenon, has died, his wife said Monday. He was 81.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/culture\/20251124-reggae-icon-and-cultural-giant-jimmy-cliff-dead-at-81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Cliff, the iconic reggae star who helped transform the island&#8217;s rhythmic music into a global cultural phenomenon, has died, his wife&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}