{"id":25487,"date":"2019-01-25T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=25487"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:05:21","slug":"gregory-hines-is-dancing-his-way-onto-americas-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/01\/25\/gregory-hines-is-dancing-his-way-onto-americas-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Hines is dancing his way onto America\u2019s mail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gregory Hines, the 42nd Black Heritage stamp, will be issued Monday, Jan. 28.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n

USPS News Link – 1\/25\/19 – Gregory Hines is dancing his way onto America\u2019s mail.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service will release a stamp Monday, Jan. 28, honoring Hines (1946-2003), the beloved tap dancer who also made a name for himself as an actor and singer.<\/p>\n

He will appear on the 42nd Black Heritage stamp, which USPS will dedicate Jan. 28 during a ceremony in New York City.<\/p>\n

Hines\u2019 unique style of tap dancing exposed new audiences to tap and renewed interest in the art form during the 1990s.<\/p>\n

He was a versatile performer who appeared on Broadway and television and in movies. He won a Tony Award in 1992 for his starring role in \u201cJelly\u2019s Last Jam,\u201d hosted an Emmy-winning PBS series about tap dancing and recorded a No. 1 R&B duet with Luther Vandross.<\/p>\n

Derry Noyes, a USPS art director, designed the stamp, which features a photograph taken by Jack Mitchell in 1988. It shows a smiling Hines on one knee in a red blazer and gray pants, with one foot raised to show the taps on the bottom of his shoe.<\/p>\n

The stamp will be available at Post Offices and\u00a0usps.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gregory Hines, the 42nd Black Heritage stamp, will be issued Monday, Jan. 28. USPS News Link – 1\/25\/19 – Gregory Hines is dancing his way onto America\u2019s mail. The Postal Service will release a stamp Monday, Jan. 28, honoring Hines (1946-2003), the beloved tap dancer who also made a name for himself as an actor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487","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=25487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25491,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions\/25491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}