{"id":19892,"date":"2020-03-21T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T04:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=19892"},"modified":"2020-03-21T21:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T04:35:52","slug":"mercy-mercy-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=19892","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Mercy Me"},"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=U9BA6fFGMjI' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9BA6fFGMjI?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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'><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>Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Marvin Gaye<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">1968<\/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>In Mercy Mercy Me the Prince of Motown, Marvin Gaye croons that &#8220;things ain&#8217;t what they used to be&#8221; before running through some of the environmental ills that faced the people of 1960&#8217;s America, including the state of the oceans and fears of radiation.\u00a0 The song became one of Gaye&#8217;s most iconic hits and helped the album it first appeared on, <em>What&#8217;s Going On<\/em>, sell more than a million copies, the first of his works to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":19902,"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-19892","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\/19892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=19892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19901,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892\/revisions\/19901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}