{"id":1096,"date":"2019-02-28T18:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2019-02-28T18:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:52:37","slug":"the-power-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/hiwa-k-gallery-responses\/the-power-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hiwa\u00a0K\u2019s unique art, specifically\u00a0\u201cThis Lemon Tastes of Apple,&#8221; expresses\u00a0the powerful values that sound can carry, and the significance music has within every community. As the video follows the protest of 2011, initiated due to the desires of \u201cbureaucratic transparency and equal access to the country\u2019s wealth,&#8221; the viewer can understand the need for change within Sulaymaniyah along with the desperation presented by the protestors. In this time of hopelessness,\u00a0Hiwa\u00a0K and his friend enter \u201cHell\u201d playing a harmonica and a guitar, amplifying their music through a megaphone. The attitudes of the individuals alter as if the music granted them with much-needed comfort. The \u201cbattle cry\u201d proved to be very effective as a large group began to follow\u00a0Hiwa\u00a0and his friend,\u00a0Daroon\u00a0Othman. From the screams of terror and pain, to the soothing sounds of music, the video develops the horrifying events that took place on April 17, 2011, and the significance sound possessed within the protest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiwa\u00a0K\u2019s unique art, specifically\u00a0\u201cThis Lemon Tastes of Apple,&#8221; expresses\u00a0the powerful values that sound can carry, and the significance music has within every community. As the video follows the protest of 2011, initiated due to the desires of \u201cbureaucratic transparency and equal access to the country\u2019s wealth,&#8221; the viewer can understand the need for change within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hiwa-k-gallery-responses","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101k-s19.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}