{"id":724,"date":"2019-02-21T10:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:40:13","slug":"happy-birthday-nina-simone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/happy-birthday-nina-simone\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Nina Simone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>She would have been 86 today; she passed in 2003.  She was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon and was known professionally as Nina Simone (\/\u02c8ni\u02d0n\u0259 s\u026a\u02c8mo\u028an\/).  She was American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MK0B9FXU72A\">Nina Simone &#8211; Stars (at Montreux Festival in 1976)<\/a><\/h4><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to tell my story &#8230; we always have a story.&#8221; Nina Simone sings Stars at the Montreux Festival. She was a very good vocalist. Listen and watch (her in the eyes). I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll feel the same I did: Nina sung about a world she knew to well.<\/p><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<div><p align=center><font color=\"#FF0000\">Thank you <font color=\"#FF6347\">for reading <font color=\"#FFA500\">today's post. \r\n<font color=\"#FFD700\">Have <font color=\"00FF00\">an <font color=\"40E0D0\">InterStellar <font color=\"800080\">Day! <font color=\"FE09FF\"> ~PrP   <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She would have been 86 today; she passed in 2003. She was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon and was known professionally as Nina Simone (\/\u02c8ni\u02d0n\u0259 s\u026a\u02c8mo\u028an\/). She was American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the civil rights movement. Thank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/happy-birthday-nina-simone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,270,15,75],"tags":[336,334],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","category-musicians","category-people","tag-montreux-festival","tag-nina-simone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}