{"id":14163,"date":"2016-02-19T09:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14163"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:29:49","slug":"former-alabama-usps-employees-band-wins-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/former-alabama-usps-employees-band-wins-grammy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Alabama USPS employee\u2019s band wins Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title-full\">Great shakes<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"link-subhead-full\">Former Alabama employee\u2019s band wins Grammy Awards<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"entry-date\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2016-02-18T13:06:58+00:00\">USPS News Link 2\/18\/16<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content full\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Alabama-Shakes-story.jpg\" alt=\"Brittany Howard performs with Alabama Shakes. Image: KLRU-TV\" width=\"473\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\">Brittany Howard performs with Alabama Shakes. Image: KLRU-TV<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before she became a rock star, Brittany Howard had a different gig: She delivered mail.<\/p>\n<p>Howard is lead singer and guitarist for Alabama Shakes, the group that won Grammy Awards this week for best alternative album, best rock performance and best rock song.<\/p>\n<p>Howard, 28, previously worked as a rural carrier assistant in Athens, AL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I sit back and think about how miraculous that all is \u2026 I\u2019d say it\u2019s more than gratifying: It\u2019s surreal,\u201d Howard<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/package\/article\/0,,20983758_20987694,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">told People.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although Howard appreciates her success, she hasn\u2019t forgotten her roots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have so much respect for mail carriers,\u201d Howard told Rolling Stone last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great shakes Former Alabama employee\u2019s band wins Grammy Awards USPS News Link 2\/18\/16 Brittany Howard performs with Alabama Shakes. Image: KLRU-TV Before she became a rock star, Brittany Howard had a different gig: She delivered mail. Howard is lead singer and guitarist for Alabama Shakes, the group that won Grammy Awards this week for best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14164,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163\/revisions\/14164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}