{"id":1898,"date":"2017-06-12T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2017-06-13T05:55:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:55:15","slug":"bessie-smith-ancestors-recall-her-favorite-hipster-craft-beer-bars-during-strut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2017\/06\/12\/bessie-smith-ancestors-recall-her-favorite-hipster-craft-beer-bars-during-strut\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessie Smith descendants recall her favorite hipster craft beer bars during Strut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While hundreds crowd Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard for Riverbend&#8217;s Bessie Smith Strut, descendants of the late Chattanooga singer reflect of her favorite hipster craft beer spots. <\/p>\n<p>Reporters caught up with Smith&#8217;s descendants as they enjoyed the Strut&#8217;s fried chicken offerings while surrounded by a group of drunk caucasians.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Bessie wasn&#8217;t chomping down on a 5 lb turkey leg or a stick of deep-fried butter wrapped in a funnel cake, she was enjoying a refreshing small batch IPA by a local microbrewery,&#8221; explained Bessie Smiths great great great nephew, Nessie Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hundreds crowd Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard for Riverbend&#8217;s Bessie Smith Strut, descendants of the late Chattanooga singer reflect of her favorite hipster craft beer spots. Reporters caught up with Smith&#8217;s descendants as they enjoyed the Strut&#8217;s fried chicken offerings while surrounded by a group of drunk caucasians. &#8220;When Bessie wasn&#8217;t chomping down on a 5 lb turkey leg or a stick of deep-fried butter wrapped in a funnel cake, she was enjoying a refreshing small batch IPA by a local microbrewery,&#8221; explained Bessie Smiths great great great nephew, Nessie Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}