{"id":26365,"date":"2012-02-09T09:02:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=26365"},"modified":"2012-02-09T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:05:17","slug":"black-sabbath-sharon-osbourne-says-she-never-fired-bill-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=26365","title":{"rendered":"BLACK SABBATH &#8211; Sharon Osbourne Says She Never Fired Bill Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ward-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ward\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ward-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ward.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe biggest drama in metal continues to unfold, and it ain&#8217;t getting any <em>prettier<\/em>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SharonUGLY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SharonUGLY-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sharon Osbourne\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SharonUGLY-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SharonUGLY.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOZZY OSBOURNE&#8217;s wife\/manager <del datetime=\"2012-02-09T13:48:54+00:00\">Yoko<\/del> Sharon Osbourne has responded to internet rumors that she &#8220;fired&#8221; BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward, after he made an online announcement last week that he could not participate in the band&#8217;s recording sessions in Birmingham, England until a \u201csignable contract is drawn up.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOsbourne posted on Twitter:<strong> &#8220;I am not in any position to hire or fire anyone in Black Sabbath. I don&#8217;t manage the band, I manage my husband.&#8221; <\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWell, if this is the case, <del datetime=\"2012-02-09T13:48:54+00:00\">Yoko<\/del>&#8230; er Sharon&#8230; then who is the business manager of Sabbath? Allow us to take a wild guess&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/Storm-08-june.gif\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MiniME.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MiniME-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MiniME\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MiniME-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MiniME.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/TMDbanny.gif\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>More on this story as it keeps developing into a bigger shit storm than it is today.<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksabbath.com\/\">http:\/\/www.blacksabbath.com\/<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest drama in metal continues to unfold, and it ain&#8217;t getting any prettier. OZZY&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-26365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26365","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=26365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}