{"id":37812,"date":"2011-10-17T15:16:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/people-get-really-fed-up-with-musicians-preaching\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:37:18","slug":"people-get-really-fed-up-with-musicians-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/people-get-really-fed-up-with-musicians-preaching\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-37812 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/people-get-really-fed-up-with-musicians-preaching\/attachment\/37813\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lt7uf7eVLN1qene28o1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cPeople get really fed up with musicians preaching at them all the time.\u201d Nonetheless, he admits, \u201cYou have opportunities that I think would be wrong to ignore.\u201d Gabriel is a co-founder, with Richard Branson, of The Elders, a human rights organization designed to \u201clink young people through technology\u201d to statesmen such as Kofi Annan and Jimmy Carter and create what Gabriel calls \u201ca pincer movement on those in power.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In March, The Elders\u2019 chair, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was given an award by the Skoll Foundation in Oxford and asked Gabriel if he would sing his 1980 song \u201cBiko\u201d for the ceremony. \u201cWe thought we\u2019d try for a small string group and [Senegalese singer] Baaba Maal joining in.\u201d The stripped-down arrangement (sans Maal) made its way onto \u201cNew Blood.\u201d (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/10\/14\/peter_gabriel_the_past_is_the_future\/\">Peter Gabriel: The past is the future &#8211; Music &#8211; Salon.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople get really fed up with musicians preaching at them all the time.\u201d Nonetheless, he admits, \u201cYou have opportunities that I think would be wrong to ignore.\u201d Gabriel is a co-founder, with Richard Branson, of The Elders, a human rights organization designed to \u201clink young people through technology\u201d to statesmen such as Kofi Annan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9PS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37814,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812\/revisions\/37814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}