{"id":127210,"date":"2017-10-29T05:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T09:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=127210"},"modified":"2017-10-29T05:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T09:07:26","slug":"janet-jackson-visits-small-childhood-home-in-gary-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/29\/janet-jackson-visits-small-childhood-home-in-gary-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Jackson visits small childhood home in Gary, Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100737\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/11938086_10153836490680283_2793888001633162578_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100737\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/11938086_10153836490680283_2793888001633162578_n.jpg\" alt=\"Singer Janet Jackson has confirmed that she and her husband Wissam Al Mana have parted ways. (Photo: Janet Jackson\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/11938086_10153836490680283_2793888001633162578_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/11938086_10153836490680283_2793888001633162578_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/11938086_10153836490680283_2793888001633162578_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/11938086_10153836490680283_2793888001633162578_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0She also told students she misses performing with her siblings.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JanetJackson\/photos\/a.426805000282.229523.76338355282\/10153836490680283\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">(Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JanetJackson\">Janet Jackson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GARY, Ind. &#8212; Singer Janet Jackson and her brother Randy Jackson have visited their childhood home in Gary, Indiana, and talked with local high school students.<\/p>\n<p>The (Northwest Indiana) Times reports that the Jacksons made the visit Friday, a day after Janet Jackson&#8217;s concert in the Chicago area. Janet Jackson told students at Roosevelt High School that she started crying when she saw the small house. She said, \u201cme and my family are so blessed. I&#8217;m so thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old said she was 8-years-old the last time she was in Gary. The family moved out of the industrial city about 30 miles (50 kilometres) southwest of Chicago after the Jackson 5 recorded their first album in 1969, when Janet Jackson was a toddler.<\/p>\n<p>She also told students she misses performing with her siblings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GARY, Ind. &#8212; Singer Janet Jackson and her brother Randy Jackson have visited their childhood home in Gary, Indiana, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[6396,15219,17727,30174],"class_list":["post-127210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-gary","tag-indiana","tag-janet-jackson","tag-randy-jackson","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}