{"id":3244,"date":"2018-08-17T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2018-08-17T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:55:22","slug":"first-song-from-our-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"First song from our wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vet6AHmq3_s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/04\/04\/aretha-franklins-american-soul\">Billy Preston quote<\/a> at the end of this profile.<\/li>\n<li>Longreads collected many of the recent articles<a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2018\/08\/16\/twelve-longreads-for-aretha-franklin\/\"> here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/16\/arts\/music\/respect-aretha-franklin-death.html\">Today&#8217;s appreciation from the Wesley Morris\/NYT<\/a>, with this paragraph:\n<p>Because lots of major pop stars now have great, big voices, maybe it\u2019s easy to forget that most Americans had never heard anything quite as dependably great and shockingly big as Ms. Franklin\u2019s. <strong>The reason we have watched \u201cShowtime at the Apollo\u201d or \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d or \u201cThe Voice\u201d is out of some desperate hope that somebody walks out there and sounds like Aretha.<\/strong> She established a standard for artistic vocal excellence, and it will outlast us all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP See the Billy Preston quote at the end of this profile. Longreads collected many of the recent articles here. Today&#8217;s appreciation from the Wesley Morris\/NYT, with this paragraph: Because lots of major pop stars now have great, big voices, maybe it\u2019s easy to forget that most Americans had never heard anything quite as dependably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First song from our wedding<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-Qk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}