{"id":316,"date":"2021-01-06T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=316"},"modified":"2021-01-29T22:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:05:16","slug":"saul-williams-npr-music-tiny-desk-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2021\/01\/06\/saul-williams-npr-music-tiny-desk-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul Williams &#8211; NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two discoveries here. First, the NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts&#8230; &#8220;Intimate video performances recorded live at the desk.&#8221; Mini-concerts that started years ago, even before we had to listen to live concerts online. Incredible. Then Saul Williams performs three of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eXfVIPqcF9I\">songs<\/a>, &#8220;Burundi&#8221;, &#8220;Think like they book say&#8221; dedicated to Chelsea Manning, and &#8220;Down for some ignorance&#8221;. Amazing how words and sound can convey so much even just played from the artist&#8217;s lounge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m a candle.<br>I&#8217;m a candle.<br>Chop my neck a million times<br>I still burn bright and stand, yo.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two discoveries here. First, the NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts&#8230; &#8220;Intimate video performances recorded live at the desk.&#8221; Mini-concerts that started years ago, even before we had to listen to live concerts online. Incredible. Then Saul Williams performs three of his songs, &#8220;Burundi&#8221;, &#8220;Think like they book say&#8221; dedicated to Chelsea Manning, and &#8220;Down for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[51,43,13],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bits-bobs","category-guardians-feed-your-soul","tag-identity","tag-racism","tag-resilience"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/janosch-diggelmann-iDD-Bt42otQ-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}