{"id":118274,"date":"2024-08-20T21:05:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T21:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/20\/james-taylor-on-dnc-cancellation-we-were-honored-to-be-there\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T21:05:11","slug":"james-taylor-on-dnc-cancellation-we-were-honored-to-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/20\/james-taylor-on-dnc-cancellation-we-were-honored-to-be-there\/","title":{"rendered":"James Taylor on DNC cancellation: &#8220;We were honored to be there&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-20\/Getty_JamesTaylorDNC2012_081924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>James Taylor at the 2012 DNC; Scott Eells\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>James Taylor<\/strong>\u00a0is sharing his feelings after his planned performance at the Democratic National Convention Monday night was cut for time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer took <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-5nMKmvdIF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>to Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> to address his missing performance, letting fans know how much he enjoyed being there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It was exciting to see and hear so many of the speakers at the opening night of the Democratic convention here in Chicago,\u201d he wrote, adding he and his singers \u201chad a great rehearsal&#8221; earlier in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBut it became clear, as the evening unfolded, that there wouldn\u2019t be time for our &#8216;You\u2019ve Got a Friend&#8217; with cello and voices,\u201d he says. \u201cMaybe the organizers couldn\u2019t anticipate the wild response from the floor of the United Center.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Taylor apologized for disappointing those who had hoped to see him, but noted the evening was \u201ca great and inspirational, quintessentially American moment,\u201d adding, \u201cWe were honored to be there.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The DNC is scheduled to run until Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Taylor at the 2012 DNC; Scott Eells\/Bloomberg via Getty Images James Taylor\u00a0is sharing his feelings after his planned performance at the Democratic National Convention Monday night was cut for time. The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer took to Instagram to address his missing performance, letting fans know how<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/20\/james-taylor-on-dnc-cancellation-we-were-honored-to-be-there\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}