{"id":1409,"date":"2016-11-11T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2016-11-10T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T11:12:06","slug":"song-of-the-week-the-marching-saints-by-harry-belafonte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;The Marching Saints&#8221; by Harry Belafonte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;The Marching Saints&#8221; by Harry Belafonte:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYYaYcU1U8g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Harry Belafonte is a beautiful singer and a lifelong champion of and activist for civil rights.\u00a0 On Monday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/07\/opinion\/campaign-stops\/harry-belafonte-what-do-we-have-to-lose-everything.html?smid=tw-share\" target=\"_blank\">he wrote an article in the <em>New York Times<\/em> <\/a>articulating the stakes of the Presidential Election through his own experiences and the poetry of Langston Hughes.\u00a0 In difficult times it behooves every person to turn to those artists whose work, lives, and words engage the heart of darkness beating its bad blood through our nation, in order to see the light that shines towards the better heart that still pulses, so that we may beat our own hearts in unison.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22The%20Marching%20Saints%22%20by%20Harry%20Belafonte\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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