{"id":187649,"date":"2018-08-18T12:12:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T12:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2018\/08\/18\/aretha-to-be-honored-at-mtv-vma-awards\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T12:12:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T12:12:35","slug":"aretha-to-be-honored-at-mtv-vma-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2018\/08\/18\/aretha-to-be-honored-at-mtv-vma-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Aretha to be honored at MTV VMA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2018_8$large_frankin.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The MTV Video Music Awards plans on honoring the legacy of Aretha Franklin &mdash; they&rsquo;re just not sure how they will do it.<\/p>\n<p>The VMAs will air live Monday. Show executive producer Jesse Ignjatovic tells The Associated Press on Friday that his team is &ldquo;working on a lot of different options.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Franklin, who was 76, died Thursday at her home in Detroit from pancreatic cancer. Ignjatovic says he&rsquo;s working to find &ldquo;the right tone and the right artist&rdquo; to properly pay tribute to the Queen of Soul. He adds: &ldquo;Whether it&rsquo;s a performance or spoken &mdash; just something that&rsquo;s organic and done in a way that feels tonally right because it&rsquo;s Aretha Franklin.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The VMAs will be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (FoxNews)<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aretha to be honored at MTV VMA Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}