{"id":19856,"date":"2020-03-20T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=19856"},"modified":"2020-03-20T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:30:16","slug":"what-have-they-done-to-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=19856","title":{"rendered":"What Have They Done to The Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-video avia-video-16-9   av-lazyload-immediate  av-lazyload-video-embed  '   itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DramVG4AL2c' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Have They Done To The Rain? - Malvina Reynolds\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DramVG4AL2c?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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