{"id":5252,"date":"2015-07-12T16:52:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2015-07-12T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:52:30","slug":"yusuf-islam-pens-song-for-srebrenica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/yusuf-islam-pens-song-for-srebrenica\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusuf Islam pens song for Srebrenica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Yusuf-Islam-pens-song-for-Srebrenica.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5253\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Yusuf-Islam-pens-song-for-Srebrenica.jpeg\" alt=\"Yusuf Islam pens song for Srebrenica\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Internationally renowned musician Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, has composed a haunting and evocative piece of instrumental music for Remembering Srebrenica.<\/p>\n<p>The global star, known for hits such as Morning Has Broken and Peace Train, was moved by the story of Srebrenica and the suffering endured by the families of the 8,372 people murdered \u2013 prompting him to compose the piece.<\/p>\n<p>In a report to charity foundation Remembering Srebrenica, Yusuf, said: \u201cA haunting melody in my mind seemed to me to call out the name, \u2018Srebrenica\u2019 \u2013 though I left it unsaid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my entire recording career I have written only a half dozen insrumentals, but sometimes an instrumental is enough. You don\u2019t need words or lyrics, the music paints its own story. No one who saw or heard about what happened at Srebrenica could help but be moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/yusuf-islam-pens-song-for-srebrenica\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internationally renowned musician Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, has composed a haunting and evocative piece of instrumental music for Remembering Srebrenica. The global star, known for hits such as Morning Has Broken and Peace Train, was moved by the story of Srebrenica and the suffering endured by the families of the 8,372 people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions\/5254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}