{"id":6578,"date":"2015-04-10T17:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2015-04-10T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:08:44","slug":"just-because-ray-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/04\/just-because-ray-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Because: Ray Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;qO7RDRdcVlZlPUAFjYbViP6MiAD11oZt&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Ray Charles performs a song written for the motion picture <em>Ballad In Blue<\/em>&#151;Directed by Paul Henreid, the last of the actor&#8217;s efforts as a film director.<\/p>\n<p>Playing himself, Charles comes to the rescue of a hard-luck family plagued by drinking problems. Their son is blind. Charles wants to pay for recovery of the boy&#8217;s eyesight. The family worries about what could happen if the effort goes amiss. Charles&#8217;s musical numbers, including &#8220;Light Out of Darkness,&#8221; are definite highlights of this 1964 film. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJmXKSDDTmI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\n<p>Have a good weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;qO7RDRdcVlZlPUAFjYbViP6MiAD11oZt&#8221;] Ray Charles performs a song written for the motion picture Ballad In Blue&#151;Directed by Paul Henreid, the last of the actor&#8217;s efforts as a film director. Playing himself, Charles comes to the rescue of a hard-luck family plagued by drinking problems. Their son is blind. Charles wants to pay for recovery of the [&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-6578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","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=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}