{"id":7395,"date":"2013-07-18T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2013-07-18T12:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:47:34","slug":"bruce-springsteen-dedicates-song-to-trayvon-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7395","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen dedicates song to Trayvon Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7396\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bruce_springsteen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7396\" alt=\"Bruce Springsteen\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bruce_springsteen-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bruce_springsteen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bruce_springsteen-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bruce_springsteen.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Springsteen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bruce Springsteen dedicated his protest song &#8220;American Skin (41 Shots)&#8221; to teenager Trayvon Martin during a concert in Limerick, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video posted online, the 63-year-old singer told the crowd Tuesday: &#8220;We&#8217;ll send this as a letter back home for justice for Trayvon Martin&#8221; after noticing a fan&#8217;s sign that read &#8220;American Skin (41 Shots).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">George Zimmerman was acquitted Saturday of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in Martin&#8217;s death. Zimmerman said he fired his gun in self-defense during a February 2012 confrontation with the 17-year-old in Sanford, Florida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lyrics in the song include &#8220;you can get killed just for living in your American skin.&#8221; Springsteen wrote the song about the 1999 police shooting death of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo. &#8211; AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Springsteen dedicated his protest song &#8220;American Skin (41 Shots)&#8221; to teenager Trayvon Martin during a concert in Limerick, Ireland. In a video posted online, the 63-year-old singer told the crowd Tuesday: &#8220;We&#8217;ll send this as a letter back home for justice for Trayvon Martin&#8221; after noticing a fan&#8217;s sign that read &#8220;American Skin (41 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bruce Springsteen dedicates song to Trayvon Martin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,3,10],"tags":[4026,4024,4025,324],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-news","category-united-states","tag-american-skin-41-shots","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-song","tag-trayvon-martin"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bruce_springsteen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7397,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions\/7397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}