{"id":5262,"date":"2016-08-12T02:34:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/12\/gymnast-mckayla-maroney-is-vaulting-into-the-music-world\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T02:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T18:34:32","slug":"gymnast-mckayla-maroney-is-vaulting-into-the-music-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/12\/gymnast-mckayla-maroney-is-vaulting-into-the-music-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymnast McKayla Maroney is vaulting into the music world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f175168%2f8f70497470204db7893130b47df3de01\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/-biozwQ2boa8A7mRhNe-eKu-lc4=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F175168%2F8f70497470204db7893130b47df3de01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Gymnast+McKayla+Maroney+is+vaulting+into+the+music+world&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F11%2Fmckayla-maroney-song%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%2F08%2F11%2Fmckayla-maroney-song%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>McKayla Maroney is used to getting press during the Olympics, so naturally she made a big announcement this week.<\/p>\n<p>The retired 2012 gold medal-winning gymnast and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/11\/17\/obama-mckayla-maroney\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">friend of Obama<\/a> is set to drop her debut single next month.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/10\/mens-us-gymnastics-team\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Get hyped for men\u2019s gymnastics with pictures of Team USA being silly and shirtless<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI like to say my genre is vulnerable pop because it\u2019s all melody and lyrically driven and heart driven,\u201d Maroney told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/mckayla-maroney-quitting-gymnastics-was-an-identity-crisis-w433496\"><em>Us Weekly<\/em><\/a>. Her song \u201cGhost\u201d will drop on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>After facing several injuries since the 2012 Olympics, Maroney decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/olympics.nbcsports.com\/2016\/02\/24\/mckayla-maroney-retires-gymnastics-olympics\/\">give up competitive gymnastics<\/a>, and she explained how making music has helped ease her transition out of the gymnastics world. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/11\/mckayla-maroney-song\/?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\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/sports\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sports<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/olympics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Olympics<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gymnastics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gymnastics<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/8zfzwU2yaI4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKayla Maroney is used to getting press during the Olympics, so naturally she made a big announcement this week. The retired 2012 gold medal-winning gymnast and friend of Obama is set to drop her debut single next month. SEE ALSO: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/12\/gymnast-mckayla-maroney-is-vaulting-into-the-music-world\/\">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":[739,2061,1043,740,735],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-gymnastics","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","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=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}