{"id":5175,"date":"2013-01-13T04:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/obama-picks-beyonce-to-sing-anthem-on\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T04:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T04:00:53","slug":"obama-picks-beyonce-to-sing-anthem-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/obama-picks-beyonce-to-sing-anthem-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Picks Beyonce to Sing Anthem on Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{US President Barack Obama has hand-picked singer Beyonce to belt out the national anthem at his upcoming inauguration ceremony on January 21st.}}<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, Beyonce sang the Etta James classis \u201cAt Last\u201d for the President and first lady\u2019s dance at the inaugural ball.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Beyonce will be Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson.  Swift will be performing \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d and Clarkson will be singing \u201cMy Country \u2018Tis of Thee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{US President Barack Obama has hand-picked singer Beyonce to belt out the national anthem at his upcoming inauguration ceremony on January 21st.}} Four years ago, Beyonce sang the Etta James classis \u201cAt Last\u201d for the President and first lady\u2019s dance at the inaugural ball. Joining Beyonce will be Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson. Swift will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}