{"id":906,"date":"2016-02-17T15:44:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2016-10-25T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:51:05","slug":"ben-harper-call-it-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Ben Harper: Call it what it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After listening to this song last night (Ben Harper&#8217;s new album), I thought it would fit perfectly well with the lesson &#8220;Voices of protest&#8221; and how artists use their work to protest against a situation (The death of black people killed by the police , here)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3yi3tLwigo0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Call It What It Is<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-song-lyrics\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">they shot him in the back<br \/>\nnow it&#8217;s a crime to be black<br \/>\nso don&#8217;t act surprised<br \/>\nwhen it gets vandalized<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">there&#8217;s good cops<br \/>\nbad cops<br \/>\nwhite cops<br \/>\nblack cops<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Trevon Martin<br \/>\nEzel Ford<br \/>\nMichael Brown<br \/>\nand so many more<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">government, policing, hard times,<br \/>\noppression, racism, fear, suffering<br \/>\nain&#8217;t easy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">gun control<br \/>\nmind control<br \/>\nself-control<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve dug ourselves a hole<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">call it what it is<br \/>\nmurder<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After listening to this song last night (Ben Harper&#8217;s new album), I thought it would fit perfectly well with the lesson &#8220;Voices of protest&#8221; and how artists use their work to protest against a situation (The death of black people killed by the police , here) Call It What It Is they shot him in <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/?p=906\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prof11.ibalade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}