{"id":12859,"date":"2012-02-16T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12859"},"modified":"2012-02-16T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:03:07","slug":"whitney-houston-funeral-to-be-private-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12859","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston Funeral To Be Private Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Whitney Houston&#8217;s<\/strong> family announced that the late singer&#8217;s funeral will be a private event.<\/p>\n<p>Talk of a large scale farewell for<strong> Whitney Houston<\/strong> has changed. Plans were announced Tuesday for a much smaller farewell for the late singer.<\/p>\n<p>The same Newark, NJ church where <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong> sang as a child will now be the scene of her funeral Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Houston&#8217;s<\/strong> fans are honoring her memory through her music.<\/p>\n<p>According to Billboard Magazine, digital sales of <em>I Will Always Love You<\/em> have gone from less than 3,000 in the week preceding her death to more than 200,000 since.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick And More To Headline Funeral Choir For Whitney Houston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whitney Houston&#8217;s<\/strong> funeral may be private, but the congregation will be packed with stars. Reports have leaked out suggesting an all-star cast of singing icons (including <strong>Aretha Franklin<\/strong>, <strong>Dionne Warwick<\/strong> and <strong>Houston&#8217;s<\/strong> mom <strong>Cissy<\/strong>) will be joining together to form a choir in tribute to the late R&amp;B star. International Business Times reports:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong> funeral invite list, choir plans and more are leaking out through the media as the memorial approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The choir at the funeral, slated to be held Sunday at New Hope Baptist Church, the Newark, N.J. congregation where <strong>Houston<\/strong> began her singing career as a child, is slated to be filled with &#8220;music legends,&#8221; according to the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitney Houston&#8217;s family announced that the late singer&#8217;s funeral will be a private event. Talk of a large scale farewell for Whitney Houston has changed. Plans were announced Tuesday for a much smaller farewell for the late singer. The same Newark, NJ church where Whitney Houston sang as a child will now be the scene [&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-12859","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\/12859","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=12859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}