{"id":28333,"date":"2024-01-16T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/president-biden-congratulates-elton-john-on-his-egot\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:04:33","slug":"president-biden-congratulates-elton-john-on-his-egot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/president-biden-congratulates-elton-john-on-his-egot\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden congratulates Elton John on his EGOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/M_EltonJohnatPianoRRHOF_122823.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Disney\/Jennifer Pottheiser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President<strong>\u00a0Joe Biden<\/strong>\u00a0is sending along his congratulations to Sir<strong>\u00a0Elton John<\/strong>, who on Monday, January 15, became the 19th\u00a0entertainer\u00a0to earn a competitive EGOT, when his Disney+ special,<em>\u00a0Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium<\/em>, won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir Elton John has been a tidal wave throughout his career to help people rise up and make hope and history rhyme,\u201d Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/POTUS\/status\/1747280272565973319?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shared on social media<\/a>. \u201cSix Grammy Awards. Two Oscars. One Tony. And now, one Emmy. Congratulations Elton \u2014 a singer and songwriter of our time, for all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden previously revealed a special connection he and his family have to Elton&#8217;s music in his book\u00a0<em>Promise Me Dad,\u00a0<\/em>sharing that as a young, single dad, he and his two sons,\u00a0<strong>Hunter<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Beau<\/strong>, would sing &#8220;Crocodile Rock&#8221; on their way to school each day. In 2015, when Beau was dying of brain cancer, Biden sat at\u00a0his bedside and sang &#8220;Crocodile Rock&#8221; to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Biden honored Elton with the National Humanities Medal, telling the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer, &#8220;On behalf of the American people, thank you &#8212; and I sincerely mean this &#8212; for moving the soul of the nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Jennifer Pottheiser President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0is sending along his congratulations to Sir\u00a0Elton John, who on Monday, January 15, became the 19th\u00a0entertainer\u00a0to earn a competitive EGOT, when his Disney+ special,\u00a0Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium, won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live).\u00a0 \u201cSir Elton John has been a tidal wave throughout<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/president-biden-congratulates-elton-john-on-his-egot\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}