{"id":2297,"date":"2015-09-15T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2015-09-14T17:57:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T22:57:50","slug":"aretha-franklin-to-sing-for-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin To Sing for Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Aretha2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2298\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Aretha2.jpg\" alt=\"Aretha2\" width=\"259\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Aretha2.jpg 259w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Aretha2-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>The Queen of Soul, our own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arethafranklin.net\/home\/\"><strong>Aretha Franklin<\/strong><\/a>, will sing for Pope Francis at his Festival of Families in Philadelphia on September 26th.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival, a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmeeting2015.org\/tickets\/festival-of-families\/\"><strong>celebration of community, family and faith<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; will feature Andrea Bocelli, rock group The Fray and The Philadelphia Symphony and will be a highlight of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmeeting2015.org\/tickets\/papal-itinerary-2\/\"><strong>Pope&#8217;s itinerary<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aretha began singing gospel music in her father&#8217;s church, the Reverend C.L.Franklin&#8217;s New Bethel Baptist Church, on C.L.Franklin Boulevard (Linwood Street) in Detroit-and having sung for you and I, Presidents and paupers; she surely will raise joyous noise for His Holiness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UFt1FRG4_VM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UFt1FRG4_VM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry The Queen of Soul, our own Aretha Franklin, will sing for Pope Francis at his Festival of Families in Philadelphia on September 26th. The Festival, a &#8220;celebration of community, family and faith&#8221; will feature Andrea Bocelli, rock group The Fray and The Philadelphia Symphony and will be a highlight of the Pope&#8217;s itinerary. Aretha began singing gospel music in her father&#8217;s church, the Reverend C.L.Franklin&#8217;s New Bethel Baptist Church, on C.L.Franklin Boulevard (Linwood Street) in Detroit-and having sung for you and I, Presidents and paupers; she surely will raise joyous noise for His Holiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[457,459,458,460],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-aretha-frankin","tag-festival-of-families","tag-pope-francis","tag-pope-francis-in-philly","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}