{"id":2132,"date":"2018-01-02T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzinthegardens.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2018-01-26T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T15:55:43","slug":"anita-baker-announces-farewell-concert-to-mark-retirement-from-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/2018\/anita-baker-announces-farewell-concert-to-mark-retirement-from-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Baker announces farewell concert to mark retirement from music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Baker surprised fans on New Year\u2019s Day when she announced that she would be doing a farewell concert series to mark her retirement from music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[S]O Much 2 CELEBRATE with you #2018. 60th Bday in 25 days,\u201d Baker tweeted. Farewell Concert Series, beginning in March\u2026 We\u2019ll paint pictures together 2 last a Lifetime\u2026 \u201cLet\u2019s Party!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the legendary singer announced that she would end her 30-year career.<\/p>\n<p>She told fans that there was \u201cno new music or tour\u201d ahead of her.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently, Baker couldn\u2019t live with leaving her fans on such a sad note. So, she announced a new farewell tour, which will kick off in March.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet on the concert locations, dates, and ticket pricing. But we do know that this is the perfect way for Anita Baker to ring in 2018, and say goodbye to a phenomenal career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2018\/01\/02\/anita-baker-farewell-concert-retire\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Baker surprised fans on New Year\u2019s Day when she announced that she would be doing a farewell concert series to mark her retirement from music. \u201c[S]O Much 2 CELEBRATE with you #2018. 60th Bday in 25 days,\u201d Baker tweeted. Farewell Concert Series, beginning in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}