{"id":4361,"date":"2024-05-15T00:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T00:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/blinken-sits-in-with-ukrainian-bar-band-for-rockin-in-the-free-world\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T00:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T00:11:44","slug":"blinken-sits-in-with-ukrainian-bar-band-for-rockin-in-the-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/blinken-sits-in-with-ukrainian-bar-band-for-rockin-in-the-free-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken sits in with Ukrainian bar band for \u2018Rockin\u2019 in the Free World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">KYIV \u2014 Neil Young songs aren\u2019t typically used as tools of diplomacy. Tuesday night in wartime Ukraine\u2019s capital, not long before curfew, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken deployed a left-handed guitar in the service of supporting Kyiv in its fight against Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Before Blinken became the top American diplomat, he was a serious rock guitarist \u2014 and along with a Ukrainian band, he played \u201cRockin\u2019 in the Free World,\u201d a 1989 song by Young, the Canadian American musician, for a packed basement music club.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV \u2014 Neil Young songs aren\u2019t typically used as tools of diplomacy. Tuesday night in wartime Ukraine\u2019s capital, not long before curfew, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken deployed a left-handed guitar in the service of supporting Kyiv in its fight against Russia. Before Blinken became the top American diplomat, he was a serious rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}