{"id":611,"date":"2014-02-19T15:25:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/?p=611"},"modified":"2014-02-19T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:25:46","slug":"charlie-white-plays-violin-on-today-after-winning-gold-at-sochi-olympics-with-meryl-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Charlie White Plays Violin on &#8216;Today&#8217; After Winning Gold at Sochi Olympics with Meryl Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/napopus.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/charlie-white-violin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-612\" alt=\"charlie-white-violin\" src=\"https:\/\/napopus.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/charlie-white-violin.png\" width=\"422\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/napopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/charlie-white-violin.png 422w, https:\/\/napopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/charlie-white-violin-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a>Gold Medalist Charlie White breaks out his violin on The Today Show during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics on Tuesday morning (February 18) in Sochi, Russia (watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justjaredjr.com\/2014\/02\/18\/charlie-white-plays-violin-on-today-after-winning-gold-at-sochi-olympics-with-meryl-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old ice dancer, who just won the gold medal in ice dance with partner Meryl Davis, honored a promise he made with Savannah Guthrie that he\u2019d play violin if he took home the gold.<\/p>\n<p>After his impromptu performance, Charlie shared: \u201cI think I was more nervous for that. It\u2019s been a solid three years since I\u2019ve played the violin so I\u2019m just honored that it could be for you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like we had done everything we could from the beginning of this competition, in practice, team event, this event. And 17 years of hard work was justified. To come away with a gold medal is amazing,\u201d Charlie shared in a press conference earlier about their win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Medalist Charlie White breaks out his violin on The Today Show during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics on Tuesday morning (February 18) in Sochi, Russia (watch it here). The 26-year-old ice dancer, who just won the gold medal in ice dance with partner Meryl Davis, honored a promise he made with Savannah Guthrie that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napopus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}