{"id":3742,"date":"2018-04-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2018-04-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:00:00","slug":"coachella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3742","title":{"rendered":"Beychella Rocks Audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Harrison Mines<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With music festival season in full swing, thousands flocked to Palm Springs, California this past weekend to enjoy a star-studded lineup at Coachella. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival has welcomed A-list performers in the past, but the 2018 festival was promised to be the biggest yet with Beyonc\u00e9 as the opening weekend headliner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday night, Beyonc\u00e9 floored audiences with a nearly two-hour long set with appearances from sister Solange, husband Jay-Z and a reunion with original Destiny\u2019s Child members, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bey\u2019s elaborate performance quickly became a viral success with many references to African American culture. Amongst her hits, Beyonc\u00e9 incorporated a step routine with \u201cHBCU vibes\u201d\u2014 a love letter to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Beyonc\u00e9 also performed the black national anthem, educating the millions watching on this piece of cultural history. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The singer received high praises from festival goers and those watching at home, many receiving her performance as an icon of Coachella for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Harrison Mines With music festival season in full swing, thousands flocked to Palm Springs, California this past weekend to enjoy a star-studded lineup at Coachella. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival has welcomed A-list performers in the past, but the 2018 festival was promised to be the biggest yet with Beyonc\u00e9 as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180415033653-01-beyonce-coachella-0415-exlarge-169.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}