{"id":11507,"date":"2011-11-21T15:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11507"},"modified":"2011-11-21T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:25:43","slug":"diddy-to-pay-tribute-to-heavy-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11507","title":{"rendered":"Diddy To Pay Tribute To Heavy D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Rap mogul<strong> Diddy<\/strong> and the <strong>Rev. Al Sharpton<\/strong> spoke at the late rapper Heavy D&#8217;s funeral on Friday, and BET Networks plans a tribute for him at the Soul Train awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diddy<\/strong> said in a statement that he was &#8220;heartbroken by the passing of my dear friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a wonderful human being, who inspired and paved the way for a Hip Hop generation.&#8221; &#8220;We were like brothers &#8212; I will miss him more than words can express.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A private funeral for the rap legend was held at the historic Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Rap mogul Diddy and the Rev. Al Sharpton spoke at the late rapper Heavy D&#8217;s funeral on Friday, and BET Networks plans a tribute for him at the Soul Train awards. Diddy said in a statement that he was &#8220;heartbroken by the passing of my dear friend.&#8221; &#8220;He was a wonderful human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}