{"id":3797,"date":"2012-07-03T00:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T07:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2012-07-03T08:12:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T15:12:40","slug":"encore-america-the-beautiful-eddie-higgins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/07\/encore-america-the-beautiful-eddie-higgins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Encore: America The Beautiful, Eddie Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Flag-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Flag-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Flag, 2012\" width=\"100\" height=\"69\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3798\" \/><\/a>Two years ago on July 4, we presented this performance by the late Eddie Higgins. When it didn&#8217;t appear in 2011, we heard from disappointed <em>Rifftides<\/em> readers. Perhaps we should establish it as an Independence Day tradition. We&#8217;ll make up for last year&#8217;s oversight by bringing on Mr. Higgins a day early. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PfPw1Y-xKpA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PfPw1Y-xKpA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/object><\/div>\n<p><p>Happy birthday, United States of America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago on July 4, we presented this performance by the late Eddie Higgins. When it didn&#8217;t appear in 2011, we heard from disappointed Rifftides readers. Perhaps we should establish it as an Independence Day tradition. We&#8217;ll make up for last year&#8217;s oversight by bringing on Mr. Higgins a day early. Happy birthday, United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}