{"id":115550,"date":"2017-09-02T02:32:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T06:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115550"},"modified":"2017-09-02T02:32:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T06:32:17","slug":"september-6th-declared-kenny-shields-day-by-saskatchewan-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/02\/september-6th-declared-kenny-shields-day-by-saskatchewan-government\/","title":{"rendered":"September 6th declared Kenny Shields Day by Saskatchewan government"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115551\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/13903145_1336616359689741_3050482506058198670_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115551\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/13903145_1336616359689741_3050482506058198670_n.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Kenny Shields and Streetheart\/The Official Site\/Facebook)\" width=\"768\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/13903145_1336616359689741_3050482506058198670_n.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/13903145_1336616359689741_3050482506058198670_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shields, who was born in Nokomis, Sask., is widely considered to be one of the bestselling recording artists to come from the province. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/streetheart.band\/photos\/a.194476077237114.50003.183305675020821\/1336616359689741\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/streetheart.band\/\">Kenny Shields and Streetheart\/The Official Site\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>REGINA &#8212; The Saskatchewan government has declared Sept. 6 to be Kenny Shields Day in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Shields, who died this summer in Winnipeg, rose to fame as lead singer with his band Streetheart in the 1970s and 80s.<\/p>\n<p>They earned six gold albums, a double platinum album, a gold single and multiple awards.<\/p>\n<p>Shields, who was born in Nokomis, Sask., is widely considered to be one of the bestselling recording artists to come from the province.<\/p>\n<p>He died at the age of 69 after undergoing cardiac surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REGINA &#8212; The Saskatchewan government has declared Sept. 6 to be Kenny Shields Day in the province. Shields, who died &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":115551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2,106,16],"tags":[22621,22623,22624,22622],"class_list":["post-115550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","category-news","tag-kenny-shields","tag-kenny-shields-day","tag-september-6","tag-streetheart","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}