{"id":5060,"date":"2019-06-10T04:16:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2019-06-10T04:16:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:16:18","slug":"paula-abdul-rocks-la-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/paula-abdul-rocks-la-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Abdul Rocks LA Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>LA Pride&nbsp;<\/em>kicked off with a spectacular free concert on the fairgrounds headlined by&nbsp;<strong>Paula Abdul<\/strong>.&nbsp; Anyone who thought this would be some quick hit-and-run appearance doesn\u2019t know Paula.&nbsp; She was onstage for well over an hour.&nbsp; She performed every hit, she told stories, she brought folks onstage to dance, she had amazing videos and dynamic dancers who tossed her around as if she were a rag doll.&nbsp; The only thing she didn\u2019t do was sing \u2013 which is ironic because at certain times, she had TWO microphones!&nbsp; She\u2019d struggle to be heard speaking, but when a song started, suddenly the vocals were crystal clear.&nbsp; Ultimately it didn\u2019t really matter.&nbsp; Like&nbsp;<strong>Britney<\/strong>, who goes to hear Paula sing?&nbsp; She put on a great show, as you can see from clips on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; BTW, this was a good chance for Abdul to try out the act in advance of her Vegas residency.&nbsp; She\u2019ll be going into the&nbsp;<em>Flamingo&nbsp;<\/em>on August 13<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; I have two tips for Paula \u2013 get a coach to work on the monologues about your life and perhaps sing a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Pride&nbsp;kicked off with a spectacular free concert on the fairgrounds headlined by&nbsp;Paula Abdul.&nbsp; Anyone who thought this would be some quick hit-and-run appearance doesn\u2019t know Paula.&nbsp; She was onstage for well over an hour.&nbsp; She performed every hit, she told stories, she brought folks onstage to dance, she had amazing videos and dynamic dancers<\/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-5060","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\/5060","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=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}