{"id":13126,"date":"2012-03-01T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13126"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:54:08","slug":"aretha-franklin-apologizes-to-whitney%e2%80%99s-mom-for-missing-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13126","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin Apologizes To Whitney\u2019s Mom For Missing Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After turning heads for missing <strong>Whitney Houston\u2018s<\/strong> funeral, <strong>Aretha Franklin<\/strong> has offered the late singer\u2019s mother, <strong>Cissy Houston<\/strong>, an apology.<\/p>\n<p>Citing leg problems ahead of a Radio City Music Hall show, the legendary singer did not make the memorial or burial service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Franklin<\/strong> sent a large bouquet of flowers to <strong>Cissy Houston<\/strong> that reportedly said, \u201cLove, <strong>Aretha<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It was speculated that <strong>Franklin<\/strong> skipped the services after angering <strong>Cissy Houston<\/strong> for comments she made on the \u201cToday\u201d show, however, a source close to the <strong>Houston<\/strong> family confirmed on Tuesday that <strong>Franklin\u2019s<\/strong> leg had indeed hobbled her efforts to get around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Aretha<\/strong> was devastated she missed the service,\u201d the source said. \u201cShe\u2019s just stunned and heartbroken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After turning heads for missing Whitney Houston\u2018s funeral, Aretha Franklin has offered the late singer\u2019s mother, Cissy Houston, an apology. Citing leg problems ahead of a Radio City Music Hall show, the legendary singer did not make the memorial or burial service. Franklin sent a large bouquet of flowers to Cissy Houston that reportedly said, [&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-13126","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\/13126","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=13126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}