{"id":53845,"date":"2016-05-24T11:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=53845"},"modified":"2016-05-24T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:44:47","slug":"holocaust-survivor-sings-national-anthem-detroit-tigers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/holocaust-survivor-sings-national-anthem-detroit-tigers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Survivor Sings National Anthem at Detroit Tigers Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the JTA:<\/p>\n<p>A Holocaust survivor, fulfilling a lifelong dream, sang the national anthem at a Major League Baseball game.<\/p>\n<p>Hermina Hirsch, 89, performed \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d on Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit prior to the Tigers\u2019 game against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Hirsch in an <a href=\"http:\/\/detroit.cbslocal.com\/2016\/04\/06\/local-holocaust-survivor-shares-bucket-list-wish-to-sing-national-anthem-at-detroit-tigers-game-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>\u00a0last month with the Detroit television station WWJ called on the ballclub to allow her to sing and said\u00a0she would not be nervous singing in front of thousands of baseball fans.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2016\/05\/22\/news-opinion\/united-states\/holocaust-survivor-sings-national-anthem-at-detroit-tigers-game\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the JTA: A Holocaust survivor, fulfilling a lifelong dream, sang the national anthem at a Major League Baseball game. Hermina Hirsch, 89, performed \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d on Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit prior to the Tigers\u2019 game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Hirsch in an interview\u00a0last month with the Detroit television station WWJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holocaust Survivor Sings National Anthem at Detroit Tigers Game - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/holocaust-survivor-sings-national-anthem-detroit-tigers-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holocaust Survivor Sings National Anthem at Detroit Tigers Game - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the JTA: A Holocaust survivor, fulfilling a lifelong dream, sang the national anthem at a Major League Baseball game. 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