{"id":28209,"date":"2018-02-19T23:36:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T23:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28209"},"modified":"2018-02-19T23:36:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T23:36:58","slug":"sing-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28209","title":{"rendered":"This is how you sing the National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The singer Fergie has been taking a lot of grief over the way she &#8220;sang&#8221; the National Anthem at the start of the NBA all-star game Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>She deserves it. It stunk to high heaven. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say about that.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than go on and on about her pitiful performance, I merely want to share the following video from the 1991 Super Bowl. A young woman named Whitney Houston sang the Anthem the way it should be sung.<\/p>\n<p>May this lovely young singer rest in peace. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whitney Houston - Star Spangled-Banner\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_lCmBvYMRs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer Fergie has been taking a lot of grief over the way she &#8220;sang&#8221; the National Anthem at the start of the NBA all-star game Sunday night. She deserves it. It stunk to high heaven. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say about that. Rather than go on and on about her pitiful performance, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is how you sing the National Anthem<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7603,3232,5257],"class_list":["post-28209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-natinal-anthem","tag-nba","tag-whitney-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28210,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28209\/revisions\/28210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}