{"id":1022,"date":"2007-05-11T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.103.127\/fyi\/2007\/05\/11\/belmont-welcomes-melinda-doolittle-home\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T16:07:49","slug":"belmont-welcomes-melinda-doolittle-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/2007\/05\/11\/belmont-welcomes-melinda-doolittle-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont Welcomes Melinda Doolittle Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tower2.jpg\" align=right hspace=4 border=1 src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/news\/umac\/archives\/tower2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Belmont University welcomed alumna and <em>American Idol<\/em> top-three finalist Melinda Doolittle (&#8217;99) home today during her hometown visit to Nashville Friday before performing in the <em>American Idol <\/em>semifinals next Tuesday.<br \/>\nBelmont proclaimed today &#8220;Melinda Doolittle Day&#8221; and unveiled a street sign marking &#8220;Melinda Doolittle Way&#8221; on the Belmont campus. Doolittle sang two songs, talked with the press and signed autographs for fans before leaving Belmont to make other stops in Nashville.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nClick &#8220;MORE&#8221; to see photos of today&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fans.jpg\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/news\/umac\/archives\/fans.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"melinda.jpg\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/news\/umac\/archives\/melinda.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"proclamation.jpg\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/news\/umac\/archives\/proclamation.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"doolittle-way.jpg\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/news\/umac\/archives\/doolittle-way.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fans2.jpg\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/news\/umac\/archives\/fans2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"media.jpg\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/news\/umac\/archives\/media.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belmont University welcomed alumna and American Idol top-three finalist Melinda Doolittle (&#8217;99) home today during her hometown visit to Nashville Friday before performing in the American Idol semifinals next Tuesday. Belmont proclaimed today &#8220;Melinda Doolittle Day&#8221; and unveiled a street sign marking &#8220;Melinda Doolittle Way&#8221; on the Belmont campus. Doolittle sang two songs, talked with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}