{"id":41,"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/songs-of-freedom\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:05:53","slug":"songs-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/songs-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-79 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1500059365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1500059365.jpg 334w, https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1500059365-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display: block;\">\u201cNothing, absolutely nothing, can sterilize spiritual creativity so long as a man is\u2014and realizes himself to be\u2014free. Only the loss of freedom, or of the consciousness of freedom, can sterilize a creative spirit.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Mircea Eliade<\/em>I hear Bob Marley singing:<br \/>\n\u201cOld pirates, yes, they rob I;<br \/>\nSold I to the merchant ships\u2026<br \/>\nBut my hand was made strong<br \/>\nBy the \u2018and of the Almighty.<br \/>\nWe forward in this generation<br \/>\nTriumphantly\u2026<br \/>\nEmancipate yourselves from mental slavery;<br \/>\nNone but ourselves can free our minds.<br \/>\nWon\u2019t you help to sing this song of freedom\u201dOur songs of freedom are sung through our creativity. Several years ago,\u00a0sitting at a booth together at a book fair,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnieleeblack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bonnie Lee Black<\/a>\u00a0and I talked about how more and more people are creating books even as fewer and fewer people actually read books\u2014a strange dichotomy.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom emerges through the creative urge of individuals. We have stories we must tell.\u00a0I sometimes imagine that all these books that don\u2019t get sold or appreciated by the \u201cmerchant ships\u201d\u2014our current market driven world\u2014will be a goldmine of understanding for those who inhabit this planet long after we have gone. Our stories are laying tracks for those who will wonder what kind of world this was, back in what they called the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>We are the ancestors of future generations, born from our species and\/or future inhabitants of this planet who come from somewhere else. Despite the pirates now working to greedily claim the bounty of our planet and our freedom, we strive forward with \u201cthe consciousness of freedom\u201d in our individual and humble ways\u2014the creative spirit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%; clear: both; visibility: hidden;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNothing, absolutely nothing, can sterilize spiritual creativity so long as a man is\u2014and realizes himself to be\u2014free. Only the loss of freedom, or of the consciousness of freedom, can sterilize a creative spirit.\u201d Mircea EliadeI hear Bob Marley singing: \u201cOld pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships\u2026 But my hand was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}