{"id":5105,"date":"2020-07-10T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2020-07-10T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:01:14","slug":"listen-to-sufjan-stevens-america-b-side-the-ten-minute-epic-my-rajneesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/2020\/07\/10\/listen-to-sufjan-stevens-america-b-side-the-ten-minute-epic-my-rajneesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Sufjan Stevens\u2019 \u2018America\u2019 B-side, the ten-minute epic \u2018My Rajneesh\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Written about the Rajneesh cult<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sufjan Stevens has shared \u2018My Rajneesh\u2019, the B-side to last week\u2019s 12-minute comeback single \u2018America\u2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new track, clocking in at 10 and a half minutes to rival its A-side, is about the Rajneesh cult movement founded by Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The sect of Hinduism attracted controversy when they founded a utopian community in the US state of Oregon, which they militaristically patrolled. In 1984, members of the cult launched the largest bio-attack in US history, poisoning hundreds in their local community with Salmonella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stevens\u2019 song will not appear on his forthcoming album, \u2018The Ascension\u2019, which is set to be released on September 25 via Asthmatic Kitty. \u2018My Rajneesh\u2019 and \u2018America\u2019 will appear on a 12-inch single to be released on July 31, with pre-orders open\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theascension.sufjan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sufjan Stevens - My Rajneesh [Official Audio]\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jn7_JpmhZP0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018America\u2019 acknowledges the wounds and flaws in whoever (or whatever) it is addressed to, but holds them tenderly; there is a sense that, though history may have a tendency to repeat itself, it does not have to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written about the Rajneesh cult Sufjan Stevens has shared \u2018My Rajneesh\u2019, the B-side to last week\u2019s 12-minute comeback single \u2018America\u2018. The new track, clocking in at 10 and a half minutes to rival its A-side, is about the Rajneesh cult movement founded by Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The sect of Hinduism attracted controversy when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-news","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5107,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}