{"id":85426,"date":"2017-01-16T20:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85426"},"modified":"2017-01-16T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:45:49","slug":"bruce-springsteen-cover-band-cancels-plans-for-inaugural-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/16\/bruce-springsteen-cover-band-cancels-plans-for-inaugural-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen cover band cancels plans for inaugural event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_85433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85433\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/399px-Bruce_Springsteen_-_Roskilde_Festival_2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85433\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/399px-Bruce_Springsteen_-_Roskilde_Festival_2012.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Springsteen cover band cancels plans for inaugural event (Photo By Bill Ebbesen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"399\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/399px-Bruce_Springsteen_-_Roskilde_Festival_2012.jpg 399w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/399px-Bruce_Springsteen_-_Roskilde_Festival_2012-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Springsteen cover band cancels plans for inaugural event (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ABruce_Springsteen_-_Roskilde_Festival_2012.jpg\">Bill Ebbesen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>TRENTON, N.J.\u2014 A Bruce Springsteen tribute band has cancelled its plans to perform at a Washington gala before Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>B Street Band leader Willie Forte said Monday that the decision is based &#8220;solely on the respect and gratitude we have for Bruce and the E Street Band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He tells The Associated Press that &#8220;this whole thing just got blown out of proportion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group had signed a contract to appear Thursday with the New Jersey State Society, but it had drawn criticism for the show because of Springsteen&#8217;s distaste for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Springsteen has called Trump a &#8220;flagrant, toxic narcissist.&#8221; Springsteen performed during Obama&#8217;s inaugural in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey State Society said Sunday it was &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; by the cancellation but understood the group&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRENTON, N.J.\u2014 A Bruce Springsteen tribute band has cancelled its plans to perform at a Washington gala before Donald Trump&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[13703,9869,13704],"class_list":["post-85426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-donald-trump","tag-willie-forte","mauthors-shawn-marsh","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85426","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=85426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}