{"id":151334,"date":"2011-12-22T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=151334"},"modified":"2011-12-23T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T17:51:09","slug":"former-smith-county-resident-to-perform-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=151334","title":{"rendered":"Former Smith County Resident to Perform at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=151391\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-151391\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/12\/VirLinda-Stanton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"VirLinda Stanton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-151391\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Entertainer and motivational speaker VirLinda Stanton, who was brought up in Smith County, is selected to appear Friday during the annual White House Christmas celebration. The performance is scheduled for noon till 2 p.m. Central time. \u201cThis is amazing,\u201d says Stanton. It is a dream come true.\u201d Stanton was reared in the Shady Grove community and began singing in front of others at church. She told our news partner KETK it all began when her great-grandmother took her to church at the age of nine and told her she was going to be in the young adult choir. Stanton says she gave it a try , \u201cand I\u2019ve been wanting to sing ever since.\u201d Her many credits include a role in the national tour of the Oprah Winfrey Broadway musical \u201cThe Color Purple.\u201d Stanton was recently honored with a Key to the City of Tyler and had a Smith County road named after her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Entertainer and motivational speaker VirLinda Stanton, who was brought up in Smith County, is selected to appear Friday during the annual White House Christmas celebration. The performance is scheduled for noon till 2 p.m. Central time. \u201cThis is amazing,\u201d says Stanton. It is a dream come true.\u201d Stanton was reared in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=151334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Smith County Resident to Perform at White House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 05:33:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151334"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151598,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151334\/revisions\/151598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}