{"id":47237,"date":"2021-02-09T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=47237"},"modified":"2021-02-09T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:10:32","slug":"smitty-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=47237","title":{"rendered":"Smitty Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?attachment_id=47238#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Smitty Matthews\" class=\"wp-image-47238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-326x420.jpg 326w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-700x901.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Smitty Matthews<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Smitty Matthews is the owner of South 29 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A&nbsp;former promoter in the Unlimited Pageantry System, Smitty is also a current sponsor for Don&#8217;t H8 where he has been added to the Don&#8217;t H8 Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Smitty is the entertainer father of Chip Matthews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Titles and Awards<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=51874\"><strong>2017 Don&#8217;t H8 Legend Award<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=71489\"><strong>National Don\u2019t H8 Hall of Fame 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>2005 Promoter of the Year at USA Unlimited<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n.jpg\" alt=\"Smitty Matthews\" data-id=\"47238\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?attachment_id=47238\" class=\"wp-image-47238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-326x420.jpg 326w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16808654_190475014771832_1722565468_n-700x901.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Smitty Matthews<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16805033_190475031438497_1978591060_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16805033_190475031438497_1978591060_o-686x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Smitty Matthews\" data-id=\"47239\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16805033_190475031438497_1978591060_o.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?attachment_id=47239\" class=\"wp-image-47239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16805033_190475031438497_1978591060_o-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16805033_190475031438497_1978591060_o-100x150.jpg 100w, 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Sometimes this accompanies their own biological families and sometimes this is the only family an individual has.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This section will outline the family tree of Smitty Matthews.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Children:<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=47299\">Erica Chanel<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=89763\">Raphael Matthews<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=29214\">Ray Matthews<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smitty Matthews is the owner of South 29 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. A&nbsp;former promoter in the Unlimited Pageantry System, Smitty&#8230; <span class=\"gridview-grid-post-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=47237\">read more<span class=\"gridview-sr-only\"> Smitty Matthews<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-47237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-south-carolina","wpcat-77-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}