{"id":8408,"date":"2011-07-14T14:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:07:02","slug":"usher-pays-tribute-to-michael-jackson-at-essence-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8408","title":{"rendered":"Usher Pays Tribute  To Michael Jackson  At Essence Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Usher<\/strong> closed out the first day of the Essence Music Festival on July 1, with a rousing two hour performance in which he paid homage to the late <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking the audience with his entrance, the Grammy winner emerged from a platform in the middle of the New Orleans Superdome high above the crowd, before breaking into his set.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst four costume changes, and nearing the end of his show,<strong> Usher<\/strong> honored the two year anniversary of <strong>Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> death. &#8220;Six days ago marks the death of <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to pay tribute to him, is that all right with you guys?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He asked before breaking into a dance sequence to the King of Pop&#8217;s hits &#8216;<em>Don&#8217;t Stop &#8216;Til You Get Enough<\/em>,&#8217; &#8216;<em>Rock With You<\/em>&#8216; and &#8216;<em>Billy Jean<\/em>,&#8217; while trying his hand at mimicking <em>Jackson&#8217;s <\/em>moonwalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usher closed out the first day of the Essence Music Festival on July 1, with a rousing two hour performance in which he paid homage to the late Michael Jackson. Shocking the audience with his entrance, the Grammy winner emerged from a platform in the middle of the New Orleans Superdome high above the crowd, [&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-8408","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\/8408","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=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}