{"id":4144,"date":"2011-05-28T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T04:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2011-05-30T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:01:19","slug":"this-revolution-will-not-be-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/05\/28\/this-revolution-will-not-be-televised\/","title":{"rendered":"This Revolution Will Not Be Televised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music legend, proto-rapper<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000002d50000000000000000_4144\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000002d50000000000000000_4144-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000002d50000000000000000_4144-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">Even though he <a href=\"http:\/\/sbacari.tripod.com\/poetry\/msgtomsgrs.htm\">wasn&#8217;t crazy about the title<\/a>.<\/span> and black poet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gil_Scott-Heron\">Gil Scott-Heron<\/a> has passed yesterday at the age of 62.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw\">His slam on 70s society<\/a> was so powerful as to give us one of today&#8217;s most ubiquitous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;q=%22revolution+will+not+be+*%22+-televised&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8\">journalistic clich\u00e9s<\/a>. He was a sharp <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/06\/b-movie-ending\/\">political analyst<\/a>, tireless militant for civil rights and the inspiration to a <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/12\/musical-quizz-sample-galore-the-answers\/\">surprisingly wide spectrum of artists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was rarely so disappointed as when I read of his arrest in 2001 and ensuing decade of drug problems. Having sung for most of his career about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0\">ravage<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hWitRABYVBk\">widespread drug-abuse<\/a> in inner-city communities, seeing him eventually fall into the ugly trap of crack-cocaine felt like a personal betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite (or perhaps because of) all that, his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I'm_New_Here\">last album<\/a>, released only a couple months ago, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OET8SVAGELA\">one of his most powerful<\/a>. It will probably be one of the best album released in 2011 by any artist, dead or alive.<\/p>\n<p>RIP Gil Scott-Heron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music legend, proto-rapper and black poet Gil Scott-Heron has passed yesterday at the age of 62. His slam on 70s society was so powerful as to give us one of today&#8217;s most ubiquitous journalistic clich\u00e9s. He was a sharp political analyst, tireless militant for civil rights and the inspiration to a surprisingly wide spectrum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-sigh","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}