{"id":4836,"date":"2014-12-08T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T10:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/08\/green-day-guitarist-diagnosed-with-cancer\/"},"modified":"2014-12-08T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T10:35:50","slug":"green-day-guitarist-diagnosed-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/08\/green-day-guitarist-diagnosed-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Day guitarist diagnosed with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\" u-underline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ac\/Jason_White_2009.jpg\/1024px-Jason_White_2009.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"163\" \/><br \/>Green Day<\/span> guitarist Jason White has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer. Since his doctors \u201ccaught it early\u201d, the musician is expected to make a \u201cfull and speedy recovery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have some news to report regarding our brother Jason &#8230; and wanted you to hear it from us before word spread,\u201d the band wrote in a <span class=\" u-underline\">Facebook statement<\/span>. \u201cJason recently underwent a routine tonsillectomy, and his doctors discovered a treatable form of tonsil cancer &#8230; Please join us in sending him love and positive healing vibes during this time.\u201d  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of comments of support have been left for the musician since Green Day\u2019s update. White has played with the band for about 15 years, first as a touring guitarist and gradually as a more integral member of the group. At the time of 2012\u2019s Uno, Dos and Tre albums, White officially became the group\u2019s lead guitarist.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong offered his first clue that the band might release a new album in 2015. \u201cI\u2019m in a hardware store in queens. and this is on my mind,\u201d <span class=\" u-underline\">he wrote<\/span> alongside an image reading \u201cGreen Day 15\u201d. The singer began writing new Green Day songs <span class=\" u-underline\">back in 2013<\/span>, telling Rolling Stone he would love to do a \u201cshitty-sounding record\u201d, made \u201c100 percent live\u201d. \u201cOne thing I can\u2019t do is do anything half-assed,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green Day are among the nominees to be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Day guitarist Jason White has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer. Since his doctors \u201ccaught&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}