{"id":426,"date":"2011-03-21T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/?p=426"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:55:53","slug":"lets-get-political-artistically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/03\/lets-get-political-artistically\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Get Political, Artistically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the racist, ill-informed shouting gets a bit loud on the internet, I tend to run away. But for those who are more creative and less confrontation-averse than I, there&#8217;s another option: pick up a guitar and try to change the world by laying down some slightly biting, sarcastic lyrical content.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zulEMWj3sVA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Wallace has reportedly since left UCLA. Meanwhile, Jimmy is riding this wave to Internet celebrity. This is art designed for social networking: talent and idea and (often) news peg equal phenomenal audience reach\/page views.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/03\/21\/ucla-student-response\/\">via<\/a>]\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the racist, ill-informed shouting gets a bit loud on the internet, I tend to run away. But for those who are more creative and less confrontation-averse than I, there&#8217;s another option: pick up a guitar and try to change the world by laying down some slightly biting, sarcastic lyrical content. Alexandra Wallace has reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,30,26,27,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-alexandra-wallace","9":"tag-jimmy-wong","10":"tag-political-music","11":"tag-race","12":"tag-ucla","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}