{"id":4009,"date":"2011-03-01T10:16:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T15:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2011-03-01T10:16:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T15:16:48","slug":"john-legend-take-my-tax-cut-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4009","title":{"rendered":"John Legend: Take My Tax Cut. Please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Singer <strong>John Legend<\/strong> was in Washington to sing at the White House on Thursday but he had a few choice words for the politicians in town, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legend<\/strong> told reporters before an evening concert celebrating Motown&#8217;s music that too often the arts are the first thing to go when budgets need to be cut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People fought to give me \u2014 a millionaire \u2014 a tax cut this year,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t need it. And all the other millionaires didn&#8217;t need it either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The singer said he&#8217;d benefited from cultural organizations such as community choirs and arts councils in earlier years, which often suffer when budgets get trimmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope our politicians will not think that they are expendable and they can just get rid of them and nobody will feel the pain,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because I think society will feel the pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Singer John Legend was in Washington to sing at the White House on Thursday but he had a few choice words for the politicians in town, too. Legend told reporters before an evening concert celebrating Motown&#8217;s music that too often the arts are the first thing to go when budgets need to be [&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-4009","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\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}