{"id":53760,"date":"2012-04-24T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=53760"},"modified":"2012-04-24T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:08:53","slug":"hello-gorgeous-and-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=53760","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hello, Gorgeous &#8230;&#8221; and Happy Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GuYFZXw4c6M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Barbra Streisand singing &#8220;He Touched Me&#8221; during her &#8220;happening in Central Park&#8221; in 1968, a classic concert, a classic event, a &#8220;happening&#8221; indeed.  And &#8220;He Touched Me&#8221; is not only one of her best performances, but one of the all-time great performances, period.  And it goes by in a flash.  But it is perfection.  Her phrasing during the ending, the build, the explosion: &#8220;A-aaaAND suddenly &#8230;&#8221;  Her repetition of &#8220;nothing&#8221;.  Chills.  It is a transcendent moment of live performance.  What she is doing here?  Is a lost art.<\/p>\n<p>What a great Diva.  Thank God we have her.  Thank God it happened!  Meaning HER in general.  Because it very well might not have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbra Streisand singing &#8220;He Touched Me&#8221; during her &#8220;happening in Central Park&#8221; in 1968, a classic concert, a classic event, a &#8220;happening&#8221; indeed. And &#8220;He Touched Me&#8221; is not only one of her best performances, but one of the all-time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=53760\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,39],"tags":[532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53760"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53767,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760\/revisions\/53767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}