{"id":558,"date":"2010-05-17T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/happy-birthday-taj-mahal\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:05:25","slug":"happy-birthday-taj-mahal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/happy-birthday-taj-mahal.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Taj Mahal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, better known to most of us as T<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taj_Mahal_%28musician%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">aj Mahal<\/a>, was born on this day in 1942.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taj Mahal \/ Corrina\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5SHHxMNkMl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-5423058606548153669?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, better known to most of us as Taj Mahal, was born on this day in 1942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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