{"id":868,"date":"2015-02-23T01:17:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/?p=868"},"modified":"2015-02-23T01:25:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:25:23","slug":"the-oscar-for-best-original-song-goes-to-glory-from-selma-as-performed-by-john-legend-and-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"The Oscar for best original song goes to \u201cGlory\u201d from \u201cSelma,\u201d as performed by John Legend and Common."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script height=\"360px\" width=\"620px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=A3b2Rqczq3PuOYgxyNEsRxmtOyAnXZ1L&#038;pbid=a637d53c5c0a43c7bf4e342886b9d8b0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article-excerpt\">The two performed just before claiming the award for Best Original Song<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-content\">\n<p>Common and John Legend brought the house down yet again with a performance of their <em>Selma <\/em>theme \u201cGlory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after the song closed the Grammys, the rapper and the singer performed their song at the Academy Awards, where it was nominated for Best Original Song. After the pair\u2019s performance, which featured a chorus marching behind Common and Legend and practically into the audience, several audience members (including <em>Selma <\/em>star David Oyelowo and Chris Pine) were visibly in tears.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of musicians upped the ante, and ended up winning the trophy for Best Original Song just minutes later. Watch their performance up top.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two performed just before claiming the award for Best Original Song Common and John Legend brought the house down yet again with a performance of their Selma theme \u201cGlory.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3,534],"tags":[1514,1515,1486,1507,861,1516,1518,1508,1510,1511,1513,1512,1517,1497,1485,1509,1506],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-video","tag-bestoriginalsong","tag-johnlegend","tag-academy-awards-2015","tag-best-original-song","tag-common","tag-david-oyelowo","tag-dolby-theatre","tag-glory","tag-john-legend","tag-marchon","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-s","tag-mlk","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-oscars","tag-oscars-2015","tag-selma","tag-the-oscars","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}