{"id":749,"date":"2010-08-31T00:20:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=749"},"modified":"2017-08-07T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:30:18","slug":"the-great-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/the-great-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let it not be said that music plays a side role in the great battle for hearts and minds. As the 9\/11 anniversary coincides with a particularly shrill and vicious campaign by the American right, I bring you Burka Blue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- <object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bpH83Vi7b9E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bpH83Vi7b9E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object> --><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bpH83Vi7b9E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The music sounds great, very art school frauenband, an almost industrial rock pop anti-protest. I&#8217;m not sure it says anything complex, but I find the sight of the swaying blue burkas, the lethargic, non-committed vocals, the dischordant rock instruments and simple synth does it for me. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=The+Great+Debate+http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=749\" title=\"Tweet this\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-twitter-micro3.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=The+Great+Debate+http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=749\" title=\"Tweet this\">Tweet this<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/the-great-debate\/&amp;t=The+Great+Debate\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-facebook-micro3.png\" alt=\"Post to Facebook\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/the-great-debate\/&amp;t=The+Great+Debate\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it not be said that music plays a side role in the great battle for hearts and minds. As the 9\/11 anniversary coincides with a particularly shrill and vicious campaign by the American right, I bring you Burka Blue. The music sounds great, very art school frauenband, an almost industrial rock pop anti-protest. I&#8217;m &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-politics","8":"without-featured-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}