{"id":3571,"date":"2016-04-02T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2016-04-02T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T14:01:34","slug":"aretha-franklins-american-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/02\/aretha-franklins-american-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin\u2019s American Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/04\/04\/aretha-franklins-american-soul\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160404_r27923-1200x630-1458682583.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t care what they say about Aretha,\u201d Billy Preston, who died in 2006, once said. \u201cShe can be hiding out in her house in Detroit for years. She can go decades without taking a plane or flying off to Europe. She can cancel half her gigs and infuriate every producer and promoter in the country. She can sing all kinds of jive-ass songs that are beneath her. She can go into her diva act and turn off the world. But on any given night, when that lady sits down at the piano and gets her body and soul all over some righteous song, she\u2019ll scare the shit out of you. And you\u2019ll know\u2014you\u2019ll swear\u2014that she\u2019s still the best fuckin\u2019 singer this fucked-up country has ever produced.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/04\/04\/aretha-franklins-american-soul\">Aretha Franklin\u2019s American Soul<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care what they say about Aretha,\u201d Billy Preston, who died in 2006, once said. \u201cShe can be hiding out in her house in Detroit for years. She can go decades without taking a plane or flying off to Europe. She can cancel half her gigs and infuriate every producer and promoter in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-VB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}