{"id":6065,"date":"2014-07-17T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T08:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2014-07-17T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T08:05:18","slug":"the-great-unamerican-songbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/07\/17\/the-great-unamerican-songbook\/","title":{"rendered":"The great unamerican songbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandchildrens' end of year concert was themed this year. \u00a0You will work out what this\u00a0was from this selection of songs:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Eat healthy food \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Give me 5<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pick bananas \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Apples and bananas<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Vegetables \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Gimme 5 (essentially a reprise)<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Enjoy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Food song<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">...<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You get the picture. \u00a0In other hands this might have been heavy going; more propaganda than pianissimo, but the teacher song writers managed deftly to rise above the messaging. \u00a0They even managed to insert a potentially subversive line about 'preferring burgers and chocolate cake', no doubt tongue in cheek. Let's hope the food police didn't notice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">I found myself wondering whether the likes of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter ever wrote songs like this. \u00a0If they did, the great American public probably took no notice of them. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Mr Gove must secretly be pleased to be well away from all this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandchildrens' end of year concert was themed this year. \u00a0You will work out what this\u00a0was from this selection of songs: Eat healthy food \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Give me 5Pick bananas \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Apples and bananasVegetables \u00a0 \u00a0...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}