{"id":159438,"date":"2025-09-21T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159438\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:54:09","slug":"morrissey-cancels-us-shows-after-death-threat-in-canada-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159438\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey cancels US shows after death threat in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is known for being outspoken on issues such as animal welfare and politics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2006, he refused to tour in Canada in protest at the annual seal hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the threat against his life in Ottawa last week, he cancelled Friday&#8217;s show in Connecticut and one in Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In recent days, there has been a credible threat on Morrissey&#8217;s life,&#8221; said a statement from the Boston venue on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and the band, tomorrow&#8217;s engagement at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway has been canceled.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He is known for being outspoken on issues such as animal welfare and politics. In 2006, he refused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-159438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}