{"id":4956,"date":"2016-07-19T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/19\/marlana-vanhooses-national-anthem-is-the-best-part-of-the-republican-convention-so-far\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:34:52","slug":"marlana-vanhooses-national-anthem-is-the-best-part-of-the-republican-convention-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/19\/marlana-vanhooses-national-anthem-is-the-best-part-of-the-republican-convention-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlana VanHoose&#039;s national anthem is the best part of the Republican convention so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f148969%2fmarlana\" 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It&#8217;ll be difficult for anyone to one-up Marlana VanHoose, who stole the convention with her performance of the national anthem tonight.\u00a0 SEE ALSO: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/19\/marlana-vanhooses-national-anthem-is-the-best-part-of-the-republican-convention-so-far\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[835,3822,3821,3410,735],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-election-2016","tag-marlana-van-hoose","tag-national-anthem","tag-republican-national-convention","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}