{"id":1784,"date":"2018-04-09T06:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2018-04-09T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T20:32:46","slug":"who-is-the-greatest-vocalist-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/09\/who-is-the-greatest-vocalist-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the greatest vocalist of all time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1771\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04092018-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1771\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04092018-8-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"Who is the greatest vocalist of all time?\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who is the greatest vocalist of all time?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hard to know &#8220;of all time&#8221; because we have only had recordings since around 1875. And what criteria to use in judging &#8220;greatest&#8221;? They would need the longevity of Billie Holiday, the range of Freddie Mercury, the power of Adele, the control of Barbara Streisand and the popularity of Michael Jackson. Maybe we&#8217;re talking about Aretha Franklin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to know &#8220;of all time&#8221; because we have only had recordings since around 1875. And what criteria to use in judging &#8220;greatest&#8221;? They would need the longevity of Billie Holiday, the range of Freddie Mercury, the power of Adele, the control of Barbara Streisand and the popularity of Michael Jackson. Maybe we&#8217;re talking about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/09\/who-is-the-greatest-vocalist-of-all-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who is the greatest vocalist of all time?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}