{"id":1536,"date":"2014-04-25T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:31:20","slug":"introduction-to-grannies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/introduction-to-grannies\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Grannies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><em>tune: Daisy, Daisy<\/em><br>\n<em> The Raging Grannies Songbook, 1993<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Raging Grannies visiting at your place.<br> Where there\u2019s action we always show our face.<br> When we see a disturbing headline,<br> A light bulb pops in our mind.<br> By day or night we sit and write<br> A song that we can share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Iraq and also El Salvador<br>\nWhere the children have suffered because of war,<br>\nThe cause the kids do not see<br>\nThey only know they\u2019re hungry.<br>\nIt would be great if strife and hate<br>\nWould end soon for all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We love singing of peace and environment.<br> We hope you know exactly what we have meant.<br> We try to sing out loudly<br> And say the words out proudly.<br> Thought we have stiff backs<br> And our voices crack,<br> We hope you will bear with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the children<br>\nOf each and every land<br>\nWe are caring<br>\nWe\u2019re stretching out our hands.<br>\nThe children of the world can<br>\nBe peaceful and secure and<br>\nIf war\u2019s to end, we must unbend\u2014<br>\nIt can start with you and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raging Grannies visiting at your place. Where there\u2019s action we always show our face. When we see a disturbing headline, A light bulb pops in our mind. By day or night we sit and write A song that we can share. In Iraq and also El Salvador Where the children have suffered because of war, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}