{"id":73871,"date":"2016-02-29T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=73871"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:40:52","slug":"73871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/02\/29\/73871\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooked on B.J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/B.J.Thomas-concert-at-NPAC-2-27-16.jpg\" alt=\"B.J.Thomas concert at NPAC 2-27-16\" width=\"545\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/B.J.Thomas-concert-at-NPAC-2-27-16.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/B.J.Thomas-concert-at-NPAC-2-27-16-550x260.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/B.J.Thomas-concert-at-NPAC-2-27-16-768x362.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A nearly full house was on hand as pop music legend B.J. Thomas entertained with renditions of the songs he made famous over a five-decades-long career, accompanied by his band and the Lima Symphony Orchestra. Thomas showed he still has the pipes as he performed hits that include \u201cHooked on a Feeling,\u201d \u201cI Just Can\u2019t Help Believing,\u201d \u201cAnother Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,\u201d and, of course, his most famous hit, \u201cRaindrops Keep Falling on My Head,\u201d the theme song for the movie <em>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em>.<\/strong> <em>(Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nearly full house was on hand as pop music legend B.J. Thomas entertained with renditions of the songs he made famous over a five-decades-long career, accompanied by his band and the Lima Symphony Orchestra. Thomas showed he still has the pipes as he performed hits that include \u201cHooked on a Feeling,\u201d \u201cI Just Can\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 00:57:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}