{"id":5366,"date":"2019-09-23T04:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2019-09-23T04:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:26:58","slug":"concert-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/concert-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>All Emmys Eve&nbsp;<\/em>was a particularly busy day for&nbsp;<strong>Billy Masters<\/strong>.&nbsp; First stop was&nbsp;<em>Royce Hall&nbsp;<\/em>at UCLA for&nbsp;<strong>Seth Rudetsky&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>James Wesley<\/strong>\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><em>Concert for America<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Interspersed between the musical performances, we were given information about the recipient of this benefit \u2013 the&nbsp;<em>National Immigration Law Center<\/em>.&nbsp; The work they do is truly inspiring, and the far-reaching effect of the dangerous policies of the current administration will hopefully lead to change in the coming elections.&nbsp; Taken as a whole, the concerts that Seth and James produce prove how one person (or, in this case, two people) can make a difference.&nbsp; In terms of individual performances, my highlights were the always luminous&nbsp;<strong>Liz Callaway&nbsp;<\/strong>and the magnificent&nbsp;<strong>Melissa Manchester<\/strong>.&nbsp; Check out clips from the concert on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ConcertsForAmerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>ConcertsForAmerica.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and, should you feel moved to make a donation, follow the information on that page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Emmys Eve&nbsp;was a particularly busy day for&nbsp;Billy Masters.&nbsp; First stop was&nbsp;Royce Hall&nbsp;at UCLA for&nbsp;Seth Rudetsky&nbsp;and&nbsp;James Wesley\u2019s&nbsp;Concert for America.&nbsp; Interspersed between the musical performances, we were given information about the recipient of this benefit \u2013 the&nbsp;National Immigration Law Center.&nbsp; The work they do is truly inspiring, and the far-reaching effect of the dangerous policies of<\/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-5366","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\/5366","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=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}