{"id":4652,"date":"2013-08-14T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2013-08-14T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:52:04","slug":"protest-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7sXgQTPJ1ZU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LYRICS<br \/>\nThis is a test. It&#8217;s a protest test.<br \/>\nFor the next 2 minutes and 32 seconds&#8230;<br \/>\nThis station will conduct a protest test on the nation<\/p>\n<p>This is a protest song<br \/>\nAnd, it won&#8217;t take you long<br \/>\nTo realize&#8230; it&#8217;s a protest song<\/p>\n<p>I must confess<br \/>\nThis&#8230; is a protest song<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re wrong, you&#8217;re wrong<br \/>\nNow, it&#8217;s a protest song<\/p>\n<p>Come on! Sing along!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a protest song<\/p>\n<p>Soon we&#8217;ll be knowing<br \/>\nKnowing as we&#8217;re growing<br \/>\nFlowing with the protest song<\/p>\n<p>This is only a test<br \/>\nIn the event of a real emergency, check your Constitution<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Terrestrial-Planet\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-of-Speech-in-West-Chester-PA.mp4\">Protest Songwriting &#8212; Freedom of Speech in West Chester, PA.mp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THIS SONG<br \/>\nChords &#8212; Capo 2<br \/>\nE A<br \/>\nE A D A E<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4652 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/freedom-of-speech-incident-in-west-chester-pa-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freedom-Of-Speech-Incident-in-West-Chester-PA-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/freedom-of-speech-incident-in-west-chester-pa-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freedom-Of-Speech-Incident-in-West-Chester-PA-5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/freedom-of-speech-incident-in-west-chester-pa-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freedom-Of-Speech-Incident-in-West-Chester-PA-6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/freedom-of-speech-incident-in-west-chester-pa-7\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freedom-Of-Speech-Incident-in-West-Chester-PA-7-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/freedom-of-speech-incident-in-west-chester-pa-8\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freedom-Of-Speech-Incident-in-West-Chester-PA-8-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/freedom-of-speech-incident-in-west-chester-pa-9\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freedom-Of-Speech-Incident-in-West-Chester-PA-9-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/freedom-of-speech-incident-in-west-chester-pa-10\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freedom-Of-Speech-Incident-in-West-Chester-PA-10-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/protest-songwriting-freedom-of-speech-session-in-west-chester-pa-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-Of-Speech-Session-in-West-Chester-PA-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/protest-songwriting-freedom-of-speech-session-in-west-chester-pa-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-Of-Speech-Session-in-West-Chester-PA-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/protest-songwriting-freedom-of-speech-session-in-west-chester-pa-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-Of-Speech-Session-in-West-Chester-PA-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/protest-songwriting-freedom-of-speech-session-in-west-chester-pa-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-Of-Speech-Session-in-West-Chester-PA-5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/protest-songwriting-freedom-of-speech-session-in-west-chester-pa-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-Of-Speech-Session-in-West-Chester-PA-6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/protest-songwriting-freedom-of-speech-session-in-west-chester-pa-7\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-Of-Speech-Session-in-West-Chester-PA-7-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/protest-songwriting-freedom-of-speech-session-in-west-chester-pa-8\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-Of-Speech-Session-in-West-Chester-PA-8-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/14\/protest-song\/protest-songwriting-freedom-of-speech-session-in-west-chester-pa-9\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Protest-Songwriting-Freedom-Of-Speech-Session-in-West-Chester-PA-9-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This is another song inspired by a police officer that stopped us from playing music on the courthouse steps. Ironically, she couldn&#8217;t warn us about a noise violation because the traffic was too loud.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MpBjgN_-5eM\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Someone wrote into the YouTube channel and asked: &#8220;What do bongos have to do with freedom of speech?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer:<br \/>\nFrom the First Amendment Center&#8217;s &#8220;A Teachers Guide to Freedom Sings&#8221; &#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;This teacher\u2019s guide to music censorship over the past 50 years is intended to illustrate to students that the First Amendment doesn\u2019t just protect the speech of the press and of politicians. It also protects music, dance, theater, poetry and film. In fact, it protects all creative expression that gives life flavor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Example from National Paralegal College &#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;A number of prominent musicians decide to get together and perform a song which is clearly meant to convey their lack of support for a military action currently underway. The performance will be afforded the protection of the First Amendment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)<\/p>\n<p>Daniel &#8212; Guitar, Vocals<\/p>\n<p>From the album <a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Terrestrial-Planet\/\"><strong><em>Terrestrial Planet<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBy <a href=\"http:\/\/KingArthur.com\/Daniel\">Daniel<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/about-me\/\">Brouse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS This is a test. It&#8217;s a protest test. For the next 2 minutes and 32 seconds&#8230; This station will conduct a protest test on the nation This is a protest song And, it won&#8217;t take you long To realize&#8230; it&#8217;s a protest song I must confess This&#8230; is a protest song When you&#8217;re wrong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,14],"tags":[2159,1899,148,1419,198,1536,295,304,327,367,546,556,561,563,615,625,678,759,781,782,2158,897,2033],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-alternative-country","tag-americana","tag-chester-county","tag-country-music","tag-daniel-brouse","tag-first-amendment","tag-first-amendment-rights","tag-folk-rock","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-guitar","tag-mp4","tag-music","tag-music-video","tag-music-videos","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-protest","tag-singer","tag-songs","tag-songwriter","tag-terrestrial-planet","tag-vocals","tag-west-chester-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}