{"id":136215,"date":"2019-04-25T18:11:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-sam-smith-axes-billboard-music-awards-performance-to-focus-on-mental-health-issues\/"},"modified":"2019-04-25T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:11:44","slug":"sa-news-sam-smith-axes-billboard-music-awards-performance-to-focus-on-mental-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-sam-smith-axes-billboard-music-awards-performance-to-focus-on-mental-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Sam Smith axes Billboard Music Awards performance to focus on mental health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=EF42928C093E40098802E5D34620DA41&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mytalk1071.com%2fsam-smith-axes-billboard-music-awards-performance-focus-mental-health-issues%2f&#038;c=17416369391605610036&#038;mkt=en-us\">Sam Smith axes Billboard Music Awards performance to focus on mental health issues<\/a>: Just days after the singer cut short a gig in Cape Town, South Africa last week (ends22Apr19) and told fans he was struggling with anxiety issues, he has axed a string of appearances. A statement on &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=EF42928C093E40098802E5D34620DA41&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mytalk1071.com%2fsam-smith-axes-billboard-music-awards-performance-focus-mental-health-issues%2f&#038;c=17416369391605610036&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=EF42928C093E40098802E5D34620DA41&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fimbibe.com%2fnews%2fcape-expectations%2f&#038;c=16881502849781474048&#038;mkt=en-us\">Cape expectations: Best-value South African wines<\/a>: There\u2019s probably nowhere else in the wine world that delivers as much bang for the buck as South Africa \u2013 particularly once you move a little upmarket. Jacopo Mazzeo joins a team of sommeliers as they &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=EF42928C093E40098802E5D34620DA41&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fimbibe.com%2fnews%2fcape-expectations%2f&#038;c=16881502849781474048&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=EF42928C093E40098802E5D34620DA41&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fthesource.com%2f2019%2f04%2f25%2fempire-letter-jussie-smollett%2f&#038;c=11784630044535649317&#038;mkt=en-us\">Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard and More \u2018Empire\u2019 Stars Pen Letter to FOX Execs for Jussie Smollett\u2019s Return<\/a>: He has traveled to South Africa for service as well as to Jamaica to quietly meet about the safety of LGBTQ youth. This was all done without posturing, the need for attention or even discussion.<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=EF42928C093E40098802E5D34620DA41&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fthesource.com%2f2019%2f04%2f25%2fempire-letter-jussie-smollett%2f&#038;c=11784630044535649317&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Smith axes Billboard Music Awards performance to focus on mental health issues: Just days after the singer cut short a gig in Cape Town, South Africa last week (ends22Apr19) and told fans he was struggling with anxiety issues, he has axed a string of appearances. A statement on &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2807,34519,9804,4199,140,4480,7599,1789,830,9310,3038],"class_list":{"0":"post-136215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-awards","8":"tag-axes","9":"tag-billboard","10":"tag-focus","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-issues","13":"tag-mental","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-performance","17":"tag-smith","18":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}