{"id":18396,"date":"2012-12-03T14:59:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2012-12-03T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:59:20","slug":"stevie-wonder-cancels-concert-for-group-funding-israeli-defense-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18396","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder Cancels Concert For Group Funding Israeli Defense Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Stevie Wonder<\/strong> is calling off a concert for a group that raises money for the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wonder<\/strong> had been scheduled to perform Dec. 6 for Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, which raises money for Israeli soldiers and their families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wonder<\/strong> said the United Nations recommended canceling his performance because he is an official \u201cMessenger of Peace\u201d for the organization. The United Nations overwhelmingly voted to recognize a Palestinian state on Thursday over vehement U.S. and Israeli objections as hopes for Mideast peace talks stalled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wonder<\/strong> said in a statement he was canceling with a heavy heart but that \u201cI am and have always been against war, any war, anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 Stevie Wonder is calling off a concert for a group that raises money for the Israeli military. Wonder had been scheduled to perform Dec. 6 for Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, which raises money for Israeli soldiers and their families. Wonder said the United Nations recommended canceling his performance because he is [&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-18396","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\/18396","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=18396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}