{"id":2495,"date":"2011-03-22T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T23:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2011-03-28T19:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T23:21:57","slug":"playing-for-change-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/playing-for-change-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing for Change in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Playing for change&#8221; has one connotation to street musicians, who make a living by placing a hat or guitar case on the sidewalk to collect spare change from passersby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Playing For Change&#8221; has a completely different meaning to musicians around the world who are working hard to inspire us all to come together as a human race.<\/p>\n<p>We introduced you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/hidden-heroes-hero2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Playing For Change founder Mark Johnson<\/a> in our <strong><em>Hidden Heroes<\/em><\/strong> series. If you haven&#8217;t read his story, you&#8217;ll be impressed by the effect brought about by a seemingly innocent moment in the New York subway.<\/p>\n<p>Now Mark&#8217;s movement has inspired a collection of musicians and singers from Japan to come together and highlight their recently-ravaged country.<\/p>\n<p>This is beautiful on so many different levels:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1. Physical<\/strong>: Wow, what incredible scenery &#8212; a stark contrast to images we&#8217;ve been seeing of late from Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Emotional<\/strong>: While I don&#8217;t understand the words, the singing is full of heart&#8230; and it touched my heart, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Mental<\/strong>: These performances bring out respect, admiration and thoughts of solidarity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Spiritual<\/strong>: I felt almost transported to Japan as I watched this, and it spoke directly to my soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even our two-year-old, Konan, was mesmerized for the first half, and dancing for the second.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy whatever levels the song inspires you on, and share your thoughts and feelings below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpevp-container\" style=\"display: block; width: 400px; height: 200px;\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-evp\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"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\" \/><!-- END WP EVP Video - DO NOT MODIFY --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Playing for change&#8221; has one connotation to street musicians, who make a living by placing a hat or guitar case on the sidewalk to collect spare change from passersby. &#8220;Playing For Change&#8221; has a completely different meaning to musicians around the world who are working hard to inspire us all to come together as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,496],"tags":[498,497,316,499],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hidden-heroes","category-inspiration-2","tag-earthquake","tag-japan","tag-playing-for-change","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}