{"id":1381,"date":"2009-02-13T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/bravo-peter-gabriel\/"},"modified":"2009-02-14T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T15:30:26","slug":"bravo-peter-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/13\/bravo-peter-gabriel\/","title":{"rendered":"Good For Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jyvTMkzftj92IU_P9cwiIe4DcLCQD96AS3403\" target=\"_blank\">from AP via Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 186%; line-height: normal; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Gabriel pulls out of Oscars over 65-second limit<\/h1>\n<p class=\"hn-byline\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; color: #676767; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\"><span class=\"hn-date\" style=\"color: #000000; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">32 minutes ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/classicrock\/1\/5\/H\/5\/gabriel_plays.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"240\" height=\"215\" align=\"left\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Peter Gabriel&#8217;s minute in the Oscars spotlight will lack one important element: Peter Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Award-nominated singer won&#8217;t perform at the Feb. 22 ceremony to protest an apparently revamped presentation of best original song contenders. Gabriel says in a video on his Web site that he objects to the songs being shortened to 65 seconds apiece and made part of a medley.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel is nominated alongside Thomas Newman for &#8220;Down To Earth&#8221; from &#8220;WALL-E.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The British musician says he&#8217;ll still attend the Oscars, but is hoping a gospel choir will stand in for him onstage.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jyvTMkzftj92IU_P9cwiIe4DcLCQD96AS3403\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Google News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP via Google News\u00a0 Gabriel pulls out of Oscars over 65-second limit 32 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Peter Gabriel&#8217;s minute in the Oscars spotlight will lack one important element: Peter Gabriel. The Academy Award-nominated singer won&#8217;t perform at the Feb. 22 ceremony to protest an apparently revamped presentation of best original song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}