{"id":1386,"date":"2013-08-04T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2013-08-04T03:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T03:30:51","slug":"pj-harvey-shaker-aamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1386\/pj-harvey-shaker-aamer\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Harvey: Shaker Aamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F103713077&amp;color=000000&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1387\" alt=\"PJ Harvey Shaker Aamer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pj-harvey-shaker-aamer-.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pj-harvey-shaker-aamer-.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pj-harvey-shaker-aamer--254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/>In 2011, PJ Harvey made sure her politically-charged <em>Let England Shake<\/em> LP caught the attention of the powers that be by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2011\/10\/video-pj-harvey-performs-for-david-cameron-last\/\" target=\"_blank\">performing feet away<\/a> from Prime Minister David Cameron, and now she&#8217;s back to put a musical spotlight on and even more specific controversy. &#8220;Shaker Aamer,&#8221; is the eponymous title of her new protest song for a Saudi Arabian man detained at Guant\u00e1namo\u00a0Bay since 2002.\u00a0Aamer &#8212; a 46-year-old whose family lives in England &#8212; has been among a group of prisoners taking part in a hunger strike this year, protesting their incarceration despite a trial and formal conviction. On the track (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/audio\/2013\/aug\/03\/pj-harvey-shaker-aamer-song-audio\" target=\"_blank\">via\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>), Harvey sings from\u00a0Aamer&#8217;s perspective with lyrics in the form of a letter from him describing the current state of his plight. Hear it above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, PJ Harvey made sure her politically-charged Let England Shake LP caught the attention of the powers that be by performing feet away from Prime Minister David Cameron, and now she&#8217;s back to put a musical spotlight on and even more specific controversy. &#8220;Shaker Aamer,&#8221; is the eponymous title of her new protest song &#8230; <a title=\"PJ Harvey: Shaker Aamer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1386\/pj-harvey-shaker-aamer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}