{"id":41965,"date":"2017-09-03T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41965"},"modified":"2017-09-03T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T14:17:02","slug":"happy-birthday-2-ya-dorothy-maynor-first-african-american-to-sing-at-american-presidents-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41965","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday 2 Ya &#8220;Dorothy Maynor&#8221; First African American to Sing at American President\u2019s Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=41966\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41966\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/dorothy-maynor-1910-1996-african-everett-560x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/dorothy-maynor-1910-1996-african-everett-560x707.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/dorothy-maynor-1910-1996-african-everett.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Dorothy Maynor<\/b>, born September 3, 1910,\u00a0was an international concert soprano, founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hsanyc.org\/\"><strong>Harlem School of the Arts<\/strong><\/a>, the first African American to sing at an American president\u2019s inauguration (Harry S. Truman\u2019s, on January 20, 1949), the first African-American artist to perform at Constitution Hall, the first woman to conduct at the United Nations, and the first African American to join the board of directors of New York\u2019s Metropolitan Opera. (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/aah\/maynor-dorothy-leigh-1910-1996\">blackpast.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Maynor, born September 3, 1910,\u00a0was an international concert soprano, founder of the Harlem School of the Arts, the first African American to sing at an American president\u2019s inauguration (Harry S. Truman\u2019s, on January 20, 1949), the first African-American artist to perform at Constitution Hall, the first woman to conduct at the United Nations, and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[3234,7613,7614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41967,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965\/revisions\/41967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}