{"id":1886,"date":"2014-01-28T10:18:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2014-01-28T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T01:49:16","slug":"take-it-easy-but-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"Take it easy, but take it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'>\n<blockquote><p>I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American. I will tell you about my songs, but I am not interested in telling you who wrote them, and I will tell you about my songs, and I am not interested in who listened to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/historymatters.gmu.edu\/d\/6457\" target=\"_blank\">Testimony of Pete Seeger before the House Un-American Activities Committee, August 18, 1955<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y0_IME9WsHQ?rel=0\" height=\"430\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2251996\/Pete%20Seeger-Black%20List.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Seeger on CBC 1965 (MP4)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2251996\/Documentary-on-Pete-Seeger.mp3]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2251996\/Documentary-on-Pete-Seeger.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">CBC Inside The Music &#8211; Conversation with Pete Seeger (MP3)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Czk2hj4VISg?rel=0\" height=\"380\" width=\"553\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2251996\/Pete%20Seeger.%20The%20Power%20of%20Song%20%282007%29%20by%20PBS%20American%20Masters%20%28full%20version%29.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">The Power of Song (2007) &#8211; PBS Pete Seeger Documentary (MP4)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce upon a time, wasn\u2019t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise, and religion? Our distant ancestors, wherever they were in this world, sang while pounding grain, paddling canoes, or walking long journeys. Can we begin to make our lives once more all of a piece? Finding the right songs and singing them over and over is a way to start. And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.\u201d ~ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/666905-once-upon-a-time-wasn-t-singing-a-part-of-everyday\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Seeger<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-play","tag-music","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}