{"id":310,"date":"2002-12-27T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2002-12-27T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/billy_bragg_price_of_oil.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:27:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:27:03","slug":"billy_bragg_price_of_oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/billy_bragg_price_of_oil.html","title":{"rendered":"Billy Bragg: Price Of Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.cbc.ca\/metromorning\/\">Metro Morning<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/\"><abbr title=\"Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\">CBC<\/abbr><\/a>&#8216;s Toronto morning show, had a piece about British singer and songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/billybragg.co.uk\/\">Billy Bragg<\/a> on today&#8217;s show. Bragg has had a track out called Price of Oil for the past month or so, a song which Errol Nazareth claims is one of the first to speak out against the impending war against Iraq. It&#8217;s an interesting song, which you can <a href=\"http:\/\/billybragg.co.uk\/multimedia\/price_of_oil.mp3\" title=\"Billy Bragg, The Price of Oil\"> download for free in MP3 format<\/a> or you could just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocklibrary.com\/Lyrics\/PriceofOil.cfm\" title=\"Billy Bragg, The Price of Oil\">read the lyrics<\/a>. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.rocklibrary.com\/Lyrics\/PriceofOil.cfm\">\n<p>Now I ain&#8217;t no fan of Saddam Hussein<br \/> Oh, please don&#8217;t get me wrong<br \/> If it&#8217;s freeing the Iraqi people you&#8217;re after<br \/> Then why have we waited so long?<br \/> Why didn&#8217;t we sort this out last time?<br \/> Was he less evil then than he is now?<br \/> The stock market holds the answer to<br \/> Why him, why here, why now?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.cbc.ca\/metromorning\/\">Metro Morning<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/\">CBC<\/a>&#8216;s Toronto morning show, had a piece about British singer and songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/billybragg.co.uk\/\">Billy Bragg<\/a> on today&#8217;s show. Bragg has had a track out called Price of Oil for the past month or so, a song which Errol Nazareth claims is one of the first to speak out against the&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/billy_bragg_price_of_oil.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Billy Bragg: Price Of Oil&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}