{"id":4249,"date":"2018-08-18T01:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T01:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2018-08-31T16:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:53:27","slug":"aretha-franklin-you-make-me-feel-like-a-natural-woman-kennedy-center-honors-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/aretha-franklin-you-make-me-feel-like-a-natural-woman-kennedy-center-honors-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman &#8211; Kennedy Center Honors 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many stars and politicians and big names honoring and dedicating and paying tribute to Aretha Franklin since her sad passing, and I didn&#8217;t want to just echo what everyone else was doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is, at least for me, a time when I decide how I want to remember someone, and to help me with that, I choose something about the person that exemplifies who they were as a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ran across this video, one of her many performances that were recorded, and I think this performance, shows off just who she was as a person, and I think it is one of the best performances of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ChilinaKennedy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chilina Kennedy<\/a>, (who played Carole King in Beautiful the musical), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arethafranklin.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aretha Franklin<\/a> performs <em>(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman<\/em> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/pages\/SpecialEvents\/honors\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedy Center Honors<\/a>; a tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/carole_king\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carole King<\/a> who received the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman &#8211; Kennedy Center Honors 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/XHsnZT7Z2yQ\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4>Did you enjoy this post? Leave a comment below and let us know! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/echoingwalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> for more great content.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Aretha Franklin spectacularly performs (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors; a tribute to Carole King &#8212; and it is legendary! <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/aretha-franklin-you-make-me-feel-like-a-natural-woman-kennedy-center-honors-2015\/\" title=\"Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman &#8211; Kennedy Center Honors 2015\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[1060,1062,919,1058,1059,1061],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-around-the-web","tag-1060","tag-a-natural-woman","tag-aretha-franklin","tag-carole-king","tag-kennedy-center-honors","tag-you-make-me-feel"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}