{"id":25550,"date":"2014-07-04T05:04:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T09:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25550"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:34:48","slug":"this-will-put-a-lump-in-your-throat-ray-charles-friendsfor-many-years-thi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25550","title":{"rendered":"This Will Put A Lump In Your Throat&#8230;Ray Charles &#038; Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/This-Will-Put-A-Lump-In-Your-Throat...Ray-Charles-Friends-For-many-years-thi.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis Will Put A Lump In Your Throat&#8230;Ray Charles &amp; Friends<\/p>\n<p>For many years, this has been my favorite rendition of this beautiful, patriotic melody. Ray Charles does for this song, what Whitney Houston did for the national anthem&#8230;bring it to life.<\/p>\n<p>Ray is joined by Quincy Jones, Stevie wonder, Michael McDonald, Michael Bolton, James Ingram and more for his iconic performance of &#8220;America The Beautiful&#8221;. Turn it up, enjoy and share! Happy 4th!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ray Charles &quot;America The Beautiful&quot; 1991\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W1GEpg0c1fw?start=12&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/697866313584254\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Will Put A Lump In Your Throat&#8230;Ray Charles &amp; Friends For many years, this has been my favorite rendition of this beautiful, patriotic melody. Ray Charles does for this song, what Whitney Houston did for the national anthem&#8230;bring it to life. Ray is joined by Quincy Jones, Stevie wonder, Michael McDonald, Michael Bolton, James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[893],"class_list":["post-25550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-whitney-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60008,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550\/revisions\/60008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}