{"id":6579,"date":"2015-04-11T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T00:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6579"},"modified":"2015-04-11T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T01:06:25","slug":"compatible-quotes-ray-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/04\/compatible-quotes-ray-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: Ray Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To me, music is entertainment &#8211; what else can it be? In fact, it&#8217;s the only language I know of that&#8217;s universal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ray-Charles-singing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ray-Charles-singing.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Charles singing\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ray-Charles-singing.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ray-Charles-singing-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ray-Charles-singing-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ray-Charles-singing-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>What is a soul? It&#8217;s like electricity &#8211; we don&#8217;t really know what it is, but it&#8217;s a force that can light a room.<\/p>\n<p>My version of &#8216;Georgia&#8217; became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ec6nFs3kRZQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, music is entertainment &#8211; what else can it be? In fact, it&#8217;s the only language I know of that&#8217;s universal. What is a soul? It&#8217;s like electricity &#8211; we don&#8217;t really know what it is, but it&#8217;s a force that can light a room. My version of &#8216;Georgia&#8217; became the state song of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}