{"id":11353,"date":"2017-03-15T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=11353"},"modified":"2017-03-30T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:01:07","slug":"a-musicians-soul-filled-response-to-trumps-immigration-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/03\/15\/a-musicians-soul-filled-response-to-trumps-immigration-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"A Musician&#8217;s Soul-Filled Response to Trump&#8217;s Immigration Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very nature of the [Muslim] ban fueled Zeshan Bagewadi to release an homage to a powerful Civil Rights Era song just days after Trump&#8217;s initial immigration ban. The Indian-American and Muslim singer breathed new life into to George Perkins&#8217; soulful track, &#8220;Cryin&#8217; in the Streets. Perkins originally wrote the song in 1970 as a reaction to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/zeshan-bagewadi-soul-filled-response-trumps-immigration-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. [Btw Zeshan wrote some of the music for my film A Thin Wall] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very nature of the [Muslim] ban fueled Zeshan Bagewadi to release an homage to a powerful Civil Rights Era song just days after Trump&#8217;s initial immigration ban. The Indian-American and Muslim singer breathed new life into to George Perkins&#8217; soulful track, &#8220;Cryin&#8217; in the Streets. Perkins originally wrote the song in 1970 as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/03\/15\/a-musicians-soul-filled-response-to-trumps-immigration-ban\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Musician&#8217;s Soul-Filled Response to Trump&#8217;s Immigration Ban<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11354,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353\/revisions\/11354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}