{"id":12381,"date":"2021-01-21T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/garth-brooks-sings-at-presidential-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:30:07","slug":"garth-brooks-sings-at-presidential-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/01\/garth-brooks-sings-at-presidential-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Sings At Presidential Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wo0tsNotoPs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Garth Brooks performed &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; a capella outside the Capitol Building in Washington, DC during the Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the song, he told the crowd,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to ask you to sing this verse with me. Not only the people here but the people at home, those at work. As one, united.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other performers at the Inauguration included Lady Gaga, who sang the national anthem, and Jennifer Lopez, who sang &#8220;America the Beautiful&#8221; and &#8220;This Land Is Your Land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, January 18th, Garth told reporters via a Zoom press conference that Dr. Jill Biden extended the invitation to perform over the weekend and this his acceptance was &#8220;not a political statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks performed &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; a capella outside the Capitol Building in Washington, DC during the Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":12382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2648,56,2640,2641,2642],"class_list":["post-12381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-amazing-grace","tag-garth-brooks","tag-inauguration","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 08:53:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/01\/garth-brooks-sings-at-presidential-inauguration\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}