{"id":13501,"date":"2021-03-09T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=13501"},"modified":"2021-03-09T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:22:47","slug":"new-music-this-week-forest-blakk-if-you-love-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2021\/03\/new-music-this-week-forest-blakk-if-you-love-her\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music This Week &#8211; Forest Blakk &#8220;If You Love Her&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New music this week on the Fox from Forest Blakk.\u00a0 The video, directed by James Fitzgerald stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Marvel\u2019s Avengers: Infinity War, Dublin Murders) and Caoimhe O\u2019Malley (Dublin Murders, &amp; The CW\u2019s Reign).<\/p>\n<p>Forest grew up in Montreal, spent time in Florida and Jamaica, and first learned to play guitar (gifted to him by his grandmother) as a way to escape a difficult life at home.\u00a0 His mother struggled with addiction and his stepfather was a notorious drug dealer.\u00a0 They moved around constantly and he found himself on and off the streets after his stepdad went to prison.<\/p>\n<p>After moving to Calgary at the age of 21, he formed a band that later earned a JUNO nomination.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDaiiluanQc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New music this week on the Fox from Forest Blakk.\u00a0 The video, directed by James Fitzgerald stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Marvel\u2019s Avengers: Infinity War, Dublin Murders) and Caoimhe O\u2019Malley (Dublin Murders, &amp; The CW\u2019s Reign). Forest grew up in Montreal, spent time in Florida and Jamaica, and first learned to play guitar (gifted to him by","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":13504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4718,4747,990,442],"class_list":["post-13501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-99-9-the-fox","tag-forest-blakk","tag-new-music","tag-sarnia"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 07:40:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2021\/03\/new-music-this-week-forest-blakk-if-you-love-her\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13503,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions\/13503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}