{"id":19867,"date":"2020-03-20T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=19867"},"modified":"2020-03-20T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:30:31","slug":"flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=19867","title":{"rendered":"Flowers"},"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; '><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=dLlW5-ZWDpQ' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Decora | Flowers - Tribute To Pete Seeger [OFFICIAL VIDEO]\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dLlW5-ZWDpQ?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>Flowers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Decora<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">2014<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The hip-hop artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamdecora.com\/\">Decora<\/a> hails from Newburgh, New York, just across the Hudson River from Beacon, where Pete Seeger made his home up until his death in 2014.\u00a0 .\u00a0 Seeger took Decora on as a mentee, connecting the younger artist with <a href=\"http:\/\/clearwater.org\">Clearwater&#8217;s<\/a> music festival, the Great Hudson River Revival, and encouraging Decora&#8217;s activist inclinations.<\/p>\n<p>Seeger&#8217;s 1955 song <em>Where Have All the Flowers Gone<\/em> examines the impacts of war on communities.\u00a0 In <em>Flowers<\/em>, Decora takes that feeling of community loss and eventual rejuvenation to examine the interconnectedness of human activities, the environment, and social ills.<\/p>\n<p>The piece ends with a sample of the haunting refrain of Seeger&#8217;s recording:<\/p>\n<p><em>When will they ever learn?<br \/>\n<\/em><em>When will they ever learn?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":19881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-19867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-and-activism","tag-music-and-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19884,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions\/19884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}