{"id":15996,"date":"2014-01-31T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15996"},"modified":"2014-01-31T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:27:40","slug":"pete-seeger-a-dissenting-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/31\/pete-seeger-a-dissenting-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Seeger: a Dissenting View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CounterPunch<\/em> has the article <a title=\"CounterPunch article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2014\/01\/30\/pete-seeger-a-dissenting-view\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pete Seeger: a Dissenting View<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Following the August 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Communist Party strongly opposed the \u201cimperialist war,\u201d and Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers made some great antiwar songs which were published in an album called \u201cSongs for John Doe\u201d<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nAfter the Nazis invaded Russia, the Party line changed and the Almanac Singers began beating the drums for war: \u201cDid you have a friend on the good Reuben James?\u201d When the U.S. entered the War they became patriots: \u201cIt\u2019s gonna take everybody to win this war.\u201d \u201cMe and the landlord may not agree, but when a burglar breaks in you quit fighting with the landlord and throw him out. \u201c (Some missing words here, but the point is clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bring this to your attention in the spirit of being fair and balanced, although I never promised that in the <a title=\"Introduction to this blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/a> to this blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I make no pretense about balance on this blog. If you want balance, read another blog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not averse to considering other points of view.\u00a0 If you read the article, does this change your view of Pete Seeger?\u00a0 Is there anything to be learned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CounterPunch has the article Pete Seeger: a Dissenting View. Following the August 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Communist Party strongly opposed the \u201cimperialist war,\u201d and Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers made some great antiwar songs which were published in an album called \u201cSongs for John Doe\u201d . . . After the Nazis invaded Russia, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15997,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions\/15997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}