{"id":163,"date":"2013-03-27T22:22:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-10-04T23:19:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T04:19:54","slug":"rest-in-peace-jay-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Rest In Peace Jay Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164 \" alt=\"jay-smith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jay-smith.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jay-smith.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jay-smith-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Smith &#8211; guitarist &amp; songwriter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sad news today in the Canadian music world; Jay Smith, guitarist for Matt Mays, passed away this morning in Edmonton.\u00a0 The band was nearing the end of a cross Canada tour and had only two more dates before hitting the road in the US with The Gaslight Anthem.\u00a0 A message on Matt Mays&#8217; Facebook page stated that the band will carry on and all proceeds from the remaining shows will go to his children.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I got to see Jay play with Matt Mays this past weekend in Hamilton (review to follow shortly).<\/p>\n<p>Jay was a very talented guitarist and songwriter.\u00a0 He released a self-titled solo album in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastcoastnoise.com\">www.eastcoastnoise.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news today in the Canadian music world; Jay Smith, guitarist for Matt Mays, passed away this morning in Edmonton.\u00a0 The band was nearing the end of a cross Canada tour and had only two more dates before hitting the road in the US with The Gaslight Anthem.\u00a0 A message &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,43],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-musing","tag-jay-smith","tag-matt-mays","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robpenfold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}