{"id":13121,"date":"2019-01-14T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T10:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/14\/i-call-upon-you-a-palestinian-song-from-the-first-intifada"},"modified":"2019-01-14T12:25:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T10:25:47","slug":"i-call-upon-you-a-palestinian-song-from-the-first-intifada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/14\/i-call-upon-you-a-palestinian-song-from-the-first-intifada\/","title":{"rendered":"I Call Upon You: A Palestinian Song From the First Intifada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R7Yz8LkpALM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Originally written as a poem<\/em><em>\u00a0in 1966 by the Palestinian poet, Tawfeeq Zayyad,\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R7Yz8LkpALM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this song<\/a> became popular leading up the First Intifada. The lyrics, put to music and sung by Lebanese musician,\u00a0Ahmad Qa&#8217;bur, in the early 1980s, beg the Arabs and Palestinians around the world not to forget the plight of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Unadikum (I Call Upon You)<\/h2>\n<p>I call upon you all:<br \/>\nI take your hand and hold it tightly.<br \/>\nI kiss the ground on which you place your feet.<br \/>\nI know that for you I would give my life.<br \/>\nMy life I would give for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally written as a poem\u00a0in 1966 by the Palestinian poet, Tawfeeq Zayyad,\u00a0this song became popular leading up the First Intifada. The lyrics, put to music and sung by Lebanese musician,\u00a0Ahmad Qa&#8217;bur, in the early 1980s, beg the Arabs and Palestinians around the world not to forget the plight of the Palestinians in the West Bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":13122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2550,2813],"tags":[2413,2814,2431,2815],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13122\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}