{"id":19872,"date":"2020-03-20T12:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=19872"},"modified":"2020-03-20T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:30:24","slug":"the-last-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=19872","title":{"rendered":"The Last Leviathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_fifth  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=JwWDhm6tMC4' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Port Isaac waves Music the last leviathan Fishermans Friends\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JwWDhm6tMC4?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_two_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_three_fifth  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>The Last Leviathan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Andy Barnes<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">1986<\/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>This plaintive cry of a song speaks to the impact of whaling from the perspective of the last whale of its kind:<\/p>\n<p><em>My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My heart it has been rent and I am crying<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For the beauty around me pales and I am screaming<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I am the last of the great whales and I am dying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The author, Andy Barnes, has not spoken on record about what prompted the writing of this song, but the lyrics and melody have inspired more than thirty recordings.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics (c) 1986 Friendly Overtures<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":19876,"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-19872","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\/19872"}],"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=19872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19878,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions\/19878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}