{"id":56447,"date":"2018-09-01T03:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/01\/aretha-franklin-friends-family-and-stars-say-goodbye-to-the-queen-of-soul\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T03:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:34:47","slug":"aretha-franklin-friends-family-and-stars-say-goodbye-to-the-queen-of-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=56447","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin: friends, family and stars say goodbye to the &#039;Queen of Soul&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mourners including the Rev Al Sharpton, Bill Clinton and Ariana Grande paid tribute to the singer at a service fit for royaltyIt was a star-studded and ostentatious \u201chomegoing\u201d fit for royalty. Aretha Franklin\u2019s funeral service in Detroit on Friday drew some of music\u2019s brightest stars and a sprinkling of political figures for a proper send-off for the \u201cQueen of Soul\u201d. Related: The funeral of Aretha Franklin \u2013 in pictures Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/aug\/31\/aretha-franklin-funeral-tributes-friends-family\" target=\"_blank\">Aretha Franklin: friends, family and stars say goodbye to the &#039;Queen of Soul&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourners including the Rev Al Sharpton, Bill Clinton and Ariana Grande paid tribute to the singer at a service fit for royaltyIt was a star-studded and ostentatious \u201chomegoing\u201d fit for royalty. Aretha Franklin\u2019s funeral service in Detroit on Friday drew some of music\u2019s brightest stars and a sprinkling of political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}