{"id":109119,"date":"2024-01-17T12:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=109119"},"modified":"2024-01-17T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:41:01","slug":"mercyful-fate-part-ways-with-bassist-joey-vera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=109119","title":{"rendered":"MERCYFUL FATE &#8211; Part Ways With Bassist Joey Vera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>MERCYFUL FATE<\/strong>\u00a0have announced the departure of bassist\u00a0<strong>Joey Vera<\/strong>\u00a0from their ranks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>King Diamond<\/strong>, who fronts the Danish heavy metal band, briefly commented on the matter yesterday, January 16th. He stated via social media, \u201cOur friendship and respect for each other will always remain the same, and we all sincerely wish each other the absolute best for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Vera<\/strong>\u00a0does not appear to have publicly addressed his exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mercyfulfateofficial\/\">MERCYFUL FATE | Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERCYFUL FATE\u00a0have announced the departure of bassist\u00a0Joey Vera\u00a0from their ranks.\u00a0 King Diamond, who fronts the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109123,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109119\/revisions\/109123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}