{"id":1126,"date":"2014-07-04T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2014-07-04T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:58:06","slug":"music-friday-star-spangled-banner-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-star-spangled-banner-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Star Spangled Banner Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-star-spangled-banner-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Star Spangled Banner Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s only fitting to celebrate Independence Day with our National Anthem, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Spangled_Banner\" target=\"_blank\">The Star Spangled Banner.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>I present to you three versions, one traditionally performed and two&#8230;well, let&#8217;s say non-traditional but stirring nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>First up is &#8211; traditional; the US Army Field Band and Chorus:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aZjR8L81yQk\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next rendition is a performance many find memorable &#8211; Whitney Houston&#8217;s 1991 performance at Super Bowl XXV. \u00a0Whatever you want to say about Whitney Houston, God Bless her for giving us this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_lCmBvYMRs\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I suppose the most non-traditional,\u00a0a flashmob. \u00a0Well, not exactly. \u00a0During the Kentucky All-State Choir Conference, all the attendees come out to the (huge) hotel lobby each night to sign the anthem:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OAEmpdSHC10\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let Freedom Ring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet It&#8217;s only fitting to celebrate Independence Day with our National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner.\u00a0 \u00a0I present to you three versions, one traditionally performed and two&#8230;well, let&#8217;s say non-traditional but stirring nonetheless. First up is &#8211; traditional; the US Army Field Band and Chorus:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}