{"id":851,"date":"2010-02-11T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=851"},"modified":"2010-08-17T21:35:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T01:35:51","slug":"hey-ayatollah-leave-those-kids-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2010\/02\/hey-ayatollah-leave-those-kids-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Ayatollah! Leave those kids alone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian world rockers <strong>Blurred Vision<\/strong> have released a cover of Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Another Brick in the Wall,&#8221; with a modern twist.<\/p>\n<p>The group changed a couple of choice lyrics to send a message of solidarity to youth fighting for their freedom in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The video, directed by Iranian filmmaker <strong>Babak Payami<\/strong>, who splits his time between Tehran and Toronto, is racking up the views on YouTube \u2014 nearly 70,000 at this writing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the band&#8217;s Web site, the single should be available for download on iTunes soon.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OIP38eq-ywc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OIP38eq-ywc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian world rockers Blurred Vision have released a cover of Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Another Brick in the Wall,&#8221; with a modern twist. The group changed a couple of choice lyrics to send a message of solidarity to youth fighting for their freedom in Iran. The video, directed by Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami, who splits his time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}