{"id":3764,"date":"2018-02-26T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2018-02-26T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:32:32","slug":"song-of-the-week-ghetto-defendant-the-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2018\/02\/26\/song-of-the-week-ghetto-defendant-the-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE WEEK: GHETTO DEFENDANT &#8211; THE CLASH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Starved in metropolis&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hooked on necropolis&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Addict of metropolis&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Do the worm on the acropolis<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Slamdance the cosmopolis<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Enlighten the populace&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ghetto Defendant&#8221; is one of those songs that will never tire me. I&#8217;ve listened to it religiously for months, always finding something new in the lyrics and the way in which the different speakers&#8217; words interact with one another. That pleasing, old poet voice rhythmically purring is none other than Allen Ginsberg reciting lyrics he wrote for the song, communicating &#8220;the voice of God.&#8221; Take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Ghetto Defendant - Remastered\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4WidRX7HuOreEGkQ6tKBBi?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starved in metropolis&#8230; Hooked on necropolis&#8230; Addict of metropolis&#8230; Do the worm on the acropolis Slamdance the cosmopolis Enlighten the populace&#8230;. &#8220;Ghetto Defendant&#8221; is one of those songs that will never tire me. I&#8217;ve listened to it religiously for months, always finding something new in the lyrics and the way in which the different speakers&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":3765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-YI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}