{"id":7924,"date":"2010-09-18T14:57:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/check-out-the-article-a-man-like-putin-the\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:23:23","slug":"check-out-the-article-a-man-like-putin-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/check-out-the-article-a-man-like-putin-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tumblr_l8y6wiGEJP1qzxaqh.mp3'>tumblr_l8y6wiGEJP1qzxaqh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the article <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/soundtracks\/stories\/putin\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Man Like Putin<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The techno-pop tune by the duo Singing Together first appeared mysteriously in 2002 and quickly topped the charts in Russia. It went on to become a Putin theme song, still played at his rallies. Catchy and ironic, this was a new kind of propaganda song. Reporter Alexis Bloom arrives in Moscow to investigate the making of the song, and how it was used in Putin&rsquo;s rise to power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/09\/16\/vladimir-putins-pop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tumblr_l8y6wiGEJP1qzxaqh Check out the article A Man Like Putin: The techno-pop tune by the duo Singing Together first appeared mysteriously in 2002 and quickly topped the charts in Russia. It went on to become a Putin theme song, still played at his rallies. Catchy and ironic, this was a new kind of propaganda song. Reporter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/check-out-the-article-a-man-like-putin-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}