{"id":118,"date":"2007-03-01T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/2007\/songs-of-war-and-peace\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T00:32:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:32:56","slug":"songs-of-war-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Songs of War and Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Iranian&#8217;s are trying their best to change the world&#8217;s perception of them as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casualconservative.com\/ibombiran.html\">breed of inhuman terrorists<\/a> by posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucasgray.com\/video\/peacetrain.html\">heartwarming movies<\/a> on the internet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x16q8a_liran-sous-les-bombes-dici-peu\">depicting a completely different Iran<\/a> than you would see on Fox News, popular culture in Israel is going another route. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurovision_Song_Contest\">Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> is a pretty big deal, and this year Israel&#8217;s entry in the competition is a political song, where the band <i>Teapacks<\/i> sing about the Iranian nuclear program and how Ahmadinejad is going to &#8220;Push the button&#8221; and destroy Israel. Tasteless? You be the judge: <\/p>\n<p>Read the lyrics <a href=\"http:\/\/eurovil.iba.org.il\/eurovision.asp?classto=Inner&#038;entity=185809&#038;type=1&#038;topic=157&#038;set_date=2007-02-22%2015:00\"> here<\/a>, listen to the song <a href=\"http:\/\/switch3.castup.net\/cunet\/gm.asp?ai=31&#038;ar=tipex1\">here<\/a> (windows media). Or see the performance on video <a href=\"http:\/\/switch3.castup.net\/cunet\/gm.asp?ai=31&#038;ar=12%5F1%5F2007%2D02%2D27%5F221248\">here<\/a> (windows media).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Iranian&#8217;s are trying their best to change the world&#8217;s perception of them as a breed of inhuman terrorists by posting heartwarming movies on the internet, depicting a completely different Iran than you would see on Fox News, popular culture in Israel is going another route. The Eurovision Song Contest is a pretty big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}