{"id":13277,"date":"2020-07-04T17:14:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=13277"},"modified":"2020-07-04T17:14:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:14:49","slug":"a-strange-and-bitter-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=13277","title":{"rendered":"a strange and bitter crop&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/billy-holliday.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13284\" width=\"715\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/billy-holliday.jpg 715w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/billy-holliday-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/billy-holliday-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Strange Fruit<\/em>&#8221; is a song recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 and released as a single on the Commodore label. Originally written as a poem by Abel Meeropol . Holiday first performed the song at Caf\u00e9 Society in Greenwich Village in 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Southern trees bear strange fruit<\/em><br><em>Blood on the leaves and blood at the root<br>Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze<\/em><br><em>Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pastoral scene of the gallant south<\/em><br><em>The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth<\/em><br><em>Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh<\/em><br><em>Then the sudden smell of burning flesh <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck<\/em><br><em>For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck<\/em><br><em>For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop<\/em><br><em>Here is a strange and bitter crop<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing the song at Caf\u00e9 Society in Greenwich Village,Holliday said that singing it made her fearful of retaliation but, because its imagery reminded her of her father, she continued to sing the piece, making it a regular part of her live performances. Holiday would close with it; the waiters would stop all service in advance; the room would be in darkness except for a spotlight on Holiday&#8217;s face; and there would be no encore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Wikipedia :Strange Fruit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/billy-h.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13283\" width=\"715\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/billy-h.jpg 715w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/billy-h-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/billy-h-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Billie-H.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13285\" width=\"1000\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Billie-H.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Billie-H-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Billie-H-768x421.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Strange Fruit&#8221; is a song recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 and released as a single on the Commodore label. Originally written as a poem by Abel Meeropol . Holiday first performed the song at Caf\u00e9 Society in Greenwich Village in 1939. Southern trees bear strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the rootBlack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=13277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a strange and bitter crop&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13277"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14517,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions\/14517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}