{"id":19265,"date":"2013-01-24T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19265"},"modified":"2013-01-24T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:16:49","slug":"why-al-green-turned-down-together-time-with-the-obamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19265","title":{"rendered":"Why Al Green Turned Down \u2018Together\u2019 Time With The Obamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Green says if things had worked out, it would have been him serenading <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> and First Lady <strong>Michelle<\/strong> at the inaugural ball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Hudson<\/strong> sang <strong>Green\u2019s<\/strong> classic <em>\u201cLet\u2019s Stay Together,\u201d<\/em> leaving many to wonder why the soul legend wasn\u2019t singing his own hit for the first couple. <strong>Green <\/strong>had been asked to sing, but scheduling conflicts prevented him from attending Monday\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green <\/strong>said he\u2019d be honored to sing for the president in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Green says if things had worked out, it would have been him serenading President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle at the inaugural ball. Jennifer Hudson sang Green\u2019s classic \u201cLet\u2019s Stay Together,\u201d leaving many to wonder why the soul legend wasn\u2019t singing his own hit for the first couple. Green had been asked to [&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-19265","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\/19265","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=19265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}