{"id":12213,"date":"2016-01-08T10:15:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12213"},"modified":"2016-01-08T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:15:19","slug":"in-performance-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12213","title":{"rendered":"IN PERFORMANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/creativity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12214\" src=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/creativity-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"creativity\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/creativity-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/creativity.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>AT THE WHITE HOUSE<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN CREATIVITY<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 @ 10:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">President and Mrs. Obama host an all-star music tribute celebrating the cultural resonance of art and literature in unique American musical forms. The evening includes performances by Buddy Guy, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Audra McDonald, Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019, Smokey Robinson, Trombone Shorty, Esperanza Spalding, Brian Stokes Mitchell, James Taylor and Usher, with special readings and remarks from Carol Burnett. The performances commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act that was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 29, 1965, and also marks the first hip-hop performance in the \u201cIn Performance at the White House\u201d broadcast series.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/inperformanceatthewhitehouse\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><br \/>\nFIND OUT MORE \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT THE WHITE HOUSE A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN CREATIVITY FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 @ 10:00PM President and Mrs. Obama host an all-star music tribute celebrating the cultural resonance of art and literature in unique American musical forms. The evening includes performances by Buddy Guy, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Audra McDonald, Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019, Smokey Robinson, Trombone Shorty, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IN PERFORMANCE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12215,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions\/12215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}