{"id":7539,"date":"2026-04-01T07:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:45:23","slug":"track-of-the-day-courage-marina-florance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/track-of-the-day-courage-marina-florance\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Of The Day: &#8220;Courage&#8221; &#8211; Marina Florance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"782\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3383.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3383.jpg 795w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3383-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3383-768x755.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3383-61x60.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1txJhNtEGuMchnRqk43QdN?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>Marina Flo releases a folk track that is essentially a protest song. First of all this track is built around acoustic guitar, and percussion, and it makes you think. With lyrics like:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we have the courage to speak out<br \/>Against the human rights deniers?<br \/>Against the anti immigration thugs?<br \/>Against the violent mob?<br \/>Since when is love a sentence of death,<br \/>And evil a medal\u2019s worth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a song that puts a spotlight on the times that we live in.<\/p>\n<p>This was written with Marina&#8217;s longtime collaborator Richard Pierce, a DJ and poet in his own right.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Florance is a singer songwriter poet and author from Norfolk that I&#8217;ve known since my early days when I joined fresh on the net, and we have been on many adventures together having been featured on BBC Introducing and Mary Anne Hobbs&#8217;s show on BBC 6 Music, plus writing a Christmas carol together!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Flo releases a folk track that is essentially a protest song. First of all this track is built around acoustic guitar, and percussion, and it makes you think. With lyrics like: \u201cDo we have the courage to speak outAgainst the human rights deniers?Against the anti immigration thugs?Against the violent mob?Since when is love a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,218,52,132,30,142,73,150,287,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-folk","category-guitar","category-lyricist","category-music","category-producer","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-track-of-the-day","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7544,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}