{"id":2657,"date":"2015-11-24T05:55:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T05:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2015-11-24T05:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T05:55:21","slug":"the-roots-of-roadturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/the-roots-of-roadturn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Roadturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roadturn concept began in June of 2007 &#8212; inspired by the incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1k08yxu57NA\" target=\"_blank\">voice and story<\/a> of Paul Potts, winner of the Britain&#8217;s Got Talent show that year.<\/p>\n<p>I was at a place in my own life where I was beginning to doubt the possibility of my own dream. Paul&#8217;s win gave me a necessary push. I&#8217;ll never forget it or him.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I listened to another young man sing his heart out. Once again, I was moved to tears.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Smith, I admire your ability to say, &#8220;This is who I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>May the Lord bless and keep you always.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHR4oOIcVZo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roadturn concept began in June of 2007 &#8212; inspired by the incredible voice and story of Paul Potts, winner of the Britain&#8217;s Got Talent show that year. I was at a place in my own life where I was beginning to doubt the possibility of my own dream. Paul&#8217;s win gave me a necessary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}