{"id":1061,"date":"2016-07-04T14:53:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T19:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2016-07-04T14:53:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T19:53:04","slug":"america-americana-and-the-price-we-pay-to-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/04\/america-americana-and-the-price-we-pay-to-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"America, Americana, and the price we pay to be Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day! In my neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago, we\u2019ve got cool summer weather perfect for enjoying the outdoors and some great grilling. For the entire country, it\u2019s a time to celebrate our victories as a nation, to celebrate our freedom, and to express our patriotism. But what does this all mean? What is freedom in today\u2019s context?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be an American, to value our liberties and at the same time, recognize that others share that same freedom with us? Today we will hear STORIES that reveal the truth about the men and women who fight for our country\u2019s freedom, not romanticized, not idealized. It\u2019s what most of us don\u2019t see, or don\u2019t know about, or sometimes, even choose to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>On this 4th of July, the American holiday of all American holidays, I\u2019d like to introduce you to the music of Rolfe Neigenfind. Rolfe describes his music as embodying the spirit of Americana with roots in the Blues. A native of North Carolina, Rolfe recently found his home in Rogers Park. I\u2019ll be playing songs from his latest album entitled Chicago now <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/chicago-ep\/id1046580744\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">available on iTunes<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen. Reflect. Celebrate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1062\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1062 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/ted_freedom2.jpg\" alt=\"Wes Moore, Rolfe Neigenfind, Sebastian Junger\" width=\"600\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wes Moore, Rolfe Neigenfind, Sebastian Junger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1061-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/nicecast-archived-audio-20160704-1005.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/nicecast-archived-audio-20160704-1005.mp3\">https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/nicecast-archived-audio-20160704-1005.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day! In my neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago, we\u2019ve got cool summer weather perfect for enjoying the outdoors and some great grilling. For the entire country, it\u2019s a time to celebrate our victories as a nation, to celebrate our freedom, and to express our patriotism. But what does this all mean? What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/04\/america-americana-and-the-price-we-pay-to-be-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America, Americana, and the price we pay to be Free<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}