{"id":1214,"date":"2010-05-05T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/rioting-in-africa-strife-in-iran-you-have-to-read-this\/"},"modified":"2014-03-15T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T20:10:10","slug":"rioting-in-africa-strife-in-iran-you-have-to-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/rioting-in-africa-strife-in-iran-you-have-to-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"RIOTING IN AFRICA?  STRIFE IN IRAN?  You Have to Read This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef0133ed3ff120970b\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef0133ed3ff120970b alt=\"Nuclear test fl cc\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef0133ed3ff120970b-320wi\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><p>\nYou\u2019re not going to believe it but this was written by<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheldon_Harnick\" target=\"_blank\">Sheldon Harnick<\/a> in 1958 and recorded by the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstontrio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston Trio<\/a>.\u00a0 Does<br \/>\nanything sound familiar? \u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t find a decent video but it was too good to waste.<\/p>\n<p><p>They&#8217;re rioting in Africa (whistling)<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re starving in Spain (whistling)<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s hurricanes in Flo-ri-da (whistling)<br \/>\nAnd Texas needs rain<br \/>\nThe whole world is festering with unhappy souls<br \/>\nThe French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles<br \/>\nItalians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch <br \/>\nAND I DON&#8217;T LIKE ANYBODY VERY MUCH!!<\/p>\n<p><p>\nBut we can be tranquil and thankful and proud<br \/>\nFor man&#8217;s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud<br \/>\nAnd we know for certain that some lovely day<br \/>\nSomeone will set the spark off<\/p>\n<p>AND WE WILL ALL BE BLOWN AWAY!!?<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re rioting in Africa (whistling)<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s strife in Iran<br \/>\nWhat nature doesn&#8217;t so to us &#8212; <br \/>\nWill be done by our fellow &#8220;man&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,4,6,27,8,9],"tags":[162,163,158,157,160,159,161],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-music","category-politics","tag-folk-music","tag-folk-songs","tag-kingston-trio","tag-merry-minuet","tag-rioting-in-africa","tag-sheldon-harnick","tag-strife-in-iran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-jA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}