{"id":71573,"date":"2018-12-16T02:42:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T01:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/16\/putin-rap-kremlin-should-take-charge-of-music-not-shut-it-down-president-says\/"},"modified":"2018-12-16T02:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T01:42:29","slug":"putin-rap-kremlin-should-take-charge-of-music-not-shut-it-down-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=71573","title":{"rendered":"Putin rap: Kremlin should &#039;take charge&#039; of music not shut it down, president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin says drugs are one of pillars of rap and are \u2018the route to a nation\u2019s degradation\u2019Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir Putin, has said the Kremlin should play a leading role in Russian rap music and youth culture, rather than trying to shut it down. His comments on Saturday follow a spate of concert cancellations by venue owners and local authorities across Russia and the brief arrest of a popular rap artist, Husky. The crackdown has sparked considerable discussion in recent months, especially among young people. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/16\/putin-rap-kremlin-should-take-charge-of-music-not-shut-it-down-president-says\" target=\"_blank\">Putin rap: Kremlin should &#039;take charge&#039; of music not shut it down, president says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin says drugs are one of pillars of rap and are \u2018the route to a nation\u2019s degradation\u2019Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir Putin, has said the Kremlin should play a leading role in Russian rap music and youth culture, rather than trying to shut it down. His comments on Saturday follow a spate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}