{"id":375,"date":"2012-11-01T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/?page_id=375"},"modified":"2012-11-18T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T20:08:12","slug":"songs-of-the-great-depression-and-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/songs-of-the-great-depression-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of The Great Depression and Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/depression-unemployment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-490\" title=\"depression unemployment\" src=\"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/depression-unemployment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/depression-unemployment.jpg 577w, https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/depression-unemployment-195x143.jpg 195w, https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/depression-unemployment-148x109.jpg 148w, https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/depression-unemployment-31x22.jpg 31w, https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/depression-unemployment-38x27.jpg 38w, https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/depression-unemployment-291x215.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a>When the Great Depression hit, a whole new genre of American folk music was born.\u00a0 Songs about the Dust Bowl, the Great Migration, bread lines and soup kitchens, the New Deal and times of triumph and struggle circulated throughout labor camps, churches and family gatherings.\u00a0 These songs depicted down-to-earth everyday realities of the American laborer and farmer, the hungry and the industrious, centuries old traditions and the transition to a new modern society.\u00a0 It can be surprising how many of these old songs speak of challenges we face today and how new songs written about today&#8217;s America can so resemble the songs of the Great Depression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">An excellent program for Libraries, Arts Centers, Churches, Schools and other meeting places.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Ages: Children Teen Adult Family<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Great Depression hit, a whole new genre of American folk music was born.\u00a0 Songs about the Dust Bowl, the Great Migration, bread lines and soup kitchens, the New Deal and times of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookhandy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}