{"id":22527,"date":"2013-07-15T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22527"},"modified":"2013-07-15T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:57:29","slug":"beyonce-calls-for-moment-of-silence-for-trayvon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22527","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce Calls For Moment Of Silence For Trayvon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beyonce<\/strong> called in a concert for a moment of silence for <strong>Trayvon Martin<\/strong>, rapper, <strong>Young Jeezy <\/strong>released a song in <strong>Martin\u2019s<\/strong> memory and <strong>Russell Simmons<\/strong> called for peace after <strong>George Zimmerman<\/strong> was acquitted by a Florida jury in the death of the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>There was a wide range of reactions by celebrities after jurors cleared <strong>Zimmerman<\/strong> late Saturday of all charges in the 2012 shooting death of the unarmed 17-year-old <strong>Martin<\/strong>. <strong>Beyonce <\/strong>took a moment to honor <strong>Martin<\/strong> during her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour concert at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>Her concert started about 30 minutes after the <strong>Zimmerman<\/strong> verdict began to circulate. \u201cI\u2019d like to have a moment of silence for <strong>Trayvon<\/strong>,\u201d the pop star said as the stage grew dark with just a few key lights shining.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyonce <\/strong>then sang the chorus of <em>\u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d<\/em> a song, fittingly given the location, written by country music star <strong>Dolly Parton <\/strong>and brought to a global audience by the late <strong>Whitney Housto<\/strong>n, before transitioning into her hit<em> \u201cHalo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyonce called in a concert for a moment of silence for Trayvon Martin, rapper, Young Jeezy released a song in Martin\u2019s memory and Russell Simmons called for peace after George Zimmerman was acquitted by a Florida jury in the death of the teenager. There was a wide range of reactions by celebrities after jurors cleared [&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-22527","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\/22527","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=22527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}