{"id":4178,"date":"2018-08-20T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2018-08-20T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:04:00","slug":"long-live-the-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/long-live-the-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live The Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody ever questioned&nbsp;<strong>Aretha<\/strong>\u2019s talent \u2013 certainly in its prime, it was beyond reproach.&nbsp; But one rarely heard of a fun-loving Aretha who loved people.&nbsp; She wasn\u2019t that kinda diva.&nbsp; It takes a special skill to come off badly in your own autobiography, but Auntie Ree did it in&nbsp;<strong><em>Aretha: From These Roots<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; As with everything, she lived on her own terms.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>PETA&nbsp;<\/em>didn\u2019t like that she wore furs?&nbsp; She started wearing them onstage.&nbsp; People criticized her weight?&nbsp; She wore dresses with spaghetti straps (which must have been made of airplane wire).&nbsp; A personal shopper informed her that purple was the only color that didn\u2019t suit her?&nbsp; She showed up at the next concert in purple.&nbsp; People gossiped about her skipping&nbsp;<strong>Whitney<\/strong>\u2019s funeral?&nbsp; She sent a largely incoherent and endless fax to the press saying nothing that defended herself and fueled a feud with&nbsp;<strong>Dionne<\/strong>.&nbsp; She was always Aretha \u2013 spaghetti-strap, fur-wearing, purple, petty Aretha.&nbsp; But when she strolled onstage and plopped her purse on the piano (she reportedly didn\u2019t trust anyone backstage), it was magic.&nbsp; The queen is dead \u2013 long live the queen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody ever questioned&nbsp;Aretha\u2019s talent \u2013 certainly in its prime, it was beyond reproach.&nbsp; But one rarely heard of a fun-loving Aretha who loved people.&nbsp; She wasn\u2019t that kinda diva.&nbsp; It takes a special skill to come off badly in your own autobiography, but Auntie Ree did it in&nbsp;Aretha: From These Roots.&nbsp; As with everything, she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}