{"id":1190,"date":"2004-08-05T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/springsteen-officially-gets-into-politics\/"},"modified":"2004-08-05T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T19:00:39","slug":"springsteen-officially-gets-into-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/springsteen-officially-gets-into-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"springsteen officially gets into politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>following his presentation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/bruce_pimps_gore.html\">gore speech<\/a>,  bruce has made it personal and official.<\/p>\n<p>in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/05\/opinion\/05bruce.html\">editorial<\/a> in the new york times,  and available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucespringsteen.net\/news\/index.html\" class=\"broken_link\">his site<\/a>, bruce explains his position, and why it&#8217;s important to get political now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A nation&#8217;s artists and musicians have a particular place in its social and political life. Over the years I&#8217;ve tried to think long and hard about what it means to be American: about the distinctive identity and position we have in the world, and how that position is best carried. I&#8217;ve tried to write songs that speak to our pride and criticize our failures.<\/p>\n<p>These questions are at the heart of this election: who we are, what we stand for, why we fight. Personally, for the last 25 years I have always stayed one step away from partisan politics. Instead, I have been partisan about a set of ideals: economic justice, civil rights, a humane foreign policy, freedom and a decent life for all of our citizens. This year, however, for many of us the stakes have risen too high to sit this election out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>go read the whole thing.  don&#8217;t sit this one out.<\/p>\n<p>bruce will be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moveonpac.org\/vfc\/\">vote for change<\/a> tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>following his presentation of a gore speech, bruce has made it personal and official. in an editorial in the new york times, and available on his site, bruce explains his position, and why it&#8217;s important to get political now. A nation&#8217;s artists and musicians have a particular place in its social and political life. Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}