{"id":10094,"date":"2015-04-13T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=10094"},"modified":"2015-04-13T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:00:55","slug":"bobby-brown-makes-his-first-public-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=10094","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Brown Makes His First Public Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bobbi.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bobbi.jpg?resize=250%2C246\" alt=\"Bobbi\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3884\" \/><\/a>Saturday (April 11), Bobby Brown made his first public appearance &#8211; fulfilling a contractual performance &#8211; since the hospitalization of his daughter, Bobbi Kristina.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must tell y\u2019all \u2026 this feels really, really, really good,\u201d Brown told a crowd at the Soul Food Festival in downtown Los Angeles. \u201cI want to think all y\u2019all for coming out tonight and supporting me and my family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bobby has been a fixture at Bobbi Kristina&#8217;s bedside since she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her Georgia home in late January, and was hospitalized at nearby Emory University. Weeks later, she was moved to a rehabilitation center, where she remains in an unconscious state. She is the only daughter of Brown and Whitney Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Brown acknowledged his family&#8217;s turmoil during his speech to the Soul Food audience as they cheered their support. \u201cRough times are rough times. Hard times are hard times,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don\u2019t know what the hell I\u2019m going through right now but I\u2019m giving it to God and lettin\u2019 him deal with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who has several concert appearances in Australia booked for next month, closed his remarks on a lighter note. \u201cThere\u2019s only one thing I ask of y\u2019all tonight: just enjoy yourselves tonight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>My two-cents:  Sad &#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>4\/2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Saturday (April 11), Bobby Brown made his first public appearance &#8211; fulfilling a contractual performance &#8211; since the hospitalization of his daughter, Bobbi Kristina.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,807],"class_list":["post-10094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bobby-brown","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-2CO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bobbi.jpg?fit=250%2C246&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}