{"id":5111,"date":"2016-07-27T23:24:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/27\/haitian-band-uplifts-stranded-passengers-on-6-hour-delayed-airplane\/"},"modified":"2016-07-27T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:24:32","slug":"haitian-band-uplifts-stranded-passengers-on-6-hour-delayed-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/27\/haitian-band-uplifts-stranded-passengers-on-6-hour-delayed-airplane\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitian band uplifts stranded passengers on 6-hour delayed airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f158277%2fdcb005a9c5174fa1ab97671ddade6bd6\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/VtebG0A27y3H5Ug0L1gzZvH9mFU=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F158277%2Fdcb005a9c5174fa1ab97671ddade6bd6.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Haitian+band+uplifts+stranded+passengers+on+6-hour+delayed+airplane&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F27%2Fdelayed-airplane-uplifting-concert%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F27%2Fdelayed-airplane-uplifting-concert%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to make being trapped on a delayed airplane less miserable.<\/p>\n<p>However, a free concert doesn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>When a flight out of Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare Airport was delayed for six terrible hours, passengers luckily had the Haitian band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LakouMizik\/\">Lakou Mizik<\/a> on board to entertain them with some uplifting songs.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/25\/african-teens-celine-dion-cover\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">African teen&#8217;s Celine Dion cover will make your heart go on<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lakou Mizik is a multigenerational Haitian collective of musicians that formed after the tragic <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/01\/12\/haiti-earthquake-five-year-anniversary\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">2010 earthquake<\/a> in Haiti.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LakouMizik\/\">Facebook page<\/a>, Lakou Mizik blends &#8220;Troubadou, Vodou, Rara and Rap into a deeply danceable bouyon of modern roots music.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/27\/delayed-airplane-uplifting-concert\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/viral-video\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Viral Video<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/videos\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/airplane\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Airplane<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/lakou-mizik\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lakou Mizik<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/thkTnxyABNE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to make being trapped on a delayed airplane less miserable. However, a free concert doesn&#8217;t hurt. When a flight out of Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare Airport was delayed for six terrible hours, passengers luckily had the Haitian band Lakou Mizik &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/27\/haitian-band-uplifts-stranded-passengers-on-6-hour-delayed-airplane\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-5111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111","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=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}