{"id":5649,"date":"2026-07-31T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-innocent-80s-reggae-hit-that-fooled-the-bbc-%f0%9f%a4%ab%f0%9f%93%ba\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:57:12","slug":"the-innocent-80s-reggae-hit-that-fooled-the-bbc-%f0%9f%a4%ab%f0%9f%93%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-innocent-80s-reggae-hit-that-fooled-the-bbc-%f0%9f%a4%ab%f0%9f%93%ba\/","title":{"rendered":"The Innocent &#8217;80s Reggae Hit That Fooled The BBC \ud83e\udd2b\ud83d\udcfa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A938DtPHpDI?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1982, Musical Youth took over the global music charts with &#8220;Pass the Dutchie.&#8221; While the world thought it was just a catchy, innocent pop-reggae track, it was actually a brilliant piece of lyrical censorship designed to smuggle a heavy street anthem past the radio censors. <\/p>\n<p>Did you know the real meaning behind this classic? Drop a \ud83c\udf72 if this surprised you! \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>#shorts #reggae #history #musicalyouth #passthedutchie #rootsreggae #jamaica #musichistory #censored #retro #storytime #vinyl #80smusic<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A938DtPHpDI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1982, Musical Youth took over the global music charts with &#8220;Pass the Dutchie.&#8221; While the world thought it was just a catchy, innocent pop-reggae track, it was actually a brilliant piece of lyrical censorship designed to smuggle a heavy street anthem past the radio censors. Did you know the real meaning behind this classic? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150904,"featured_media":5650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}