{"id":56588,"date":"2018-09-02T01:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/02\/bishop-apologises-to-ariana-grande-for-conduct-at-aretha-franklins-funeral\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T01:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T23:04:27","slug":"bishop-apologises-to-ariana-grande-for-conduct-at-aretha-franklins-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=56588","title":{"rendered":"Bishop apologises to Ariana Grande for conduct at Aretha Franklin&#039;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Charles H Ellis III\u2019s hug of the singer, and a joke about her name, was interpreted by some as crossing a lineAriana Grande has received an apology from the bishop who led Aretha Franklin\u2019s funeral after he was accused of touching her inappropriately while on stage. Bishop Charles Ellis III, who officiated at Franklin\u2019s funeral, awkwardly greeted Grande on stage after she performed (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman. Images showed Ellis\u2019s hand holding Grande well above her waist, with his fingers pressing against one side of her chest. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/sep\/01\/bishop-apologises-to-ariana-grande-for-conduct-at-aretha-franklins-funeral\" target=\"_blank\">Bishop apologises to Ariana Grande for conduct at Aretha Franklin&#039;s funeral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Charles H Ellis III\u2019s hug of the singer, and a joke about her name, was interpreted by some as crossing a lineAriana Grande has received an apology from the bishop who led Aretha Franklin\u2019s funeral after he was accused of touching her inappropriately while on stage. Bishop Charles Ellis [&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-56588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56588","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=56588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}