{"id":7212,"date":"2015-06-15T07:16:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2015-06-15T07:16:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:16:48","slug":"billy-holidays-strange-fruit-was-written-by-a-jewish-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/billy-holidays-strange-fruit-was-written-by-a-jewish-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Holiday&#8217;s Strange Fruit was written by a Jewish man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billie-Holiday-Strange-Fruit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billie-Holiday-Strange-Fruit.jpg\" alt=\"Billie Holiday Strange Fruit\" width=\"682\" height=\"575\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billie-Holiday-Strange-Fruit.jpg 682w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billie-Holiday-Strange-Fruit-225x190.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billie-Holiday-Strange-Fruit-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nStrange Fruit, the haunting song made famous by Billy Holiday and named the Song of the Century by <em>Time<\/em> magazine in 1999, is a fearsome ballad about Black people hung from trees after lynching. An interesting little known fact about this song is that its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/09\/05\/158933012\/the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit\">author was Abel Meerpol<\/a>, a Jewish man from the Bronx.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h4ZyuULy9zs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange Fruit, the haunting song made famous by Billy Holiday and named the Song of the Century by Time magazine in 1999, is a fearsome ballad about Black people hung from trees after lynching. An interesting little known fact about this song is that its author was Abel Meerpol, a Jewish man from the Bronx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}},"categories":[1,1082,563],"tags":[1894,724,1767,1895],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-dei","category-justice","tag-billie-holiday","tag-black","tag-jewish","tag-strange-fruit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7219,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}