{"id":1319538,"date":"2020-04-20T08:04:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1820413"},"modified":"2020-04-20T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:04:56","slug":"did-eric-church-just-pen-a-pandemic-poem-or-did-he-write-a-country-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/did-eric-church-just-pen-a-pandemic-poem-or-did-he-write-a-country-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Eric Church Just Pen a Pandemic Poem? Or Did He Write a Country Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:687510?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n35m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new Eric Church video going viral, and we aren\u2019t exactly sure what it is. A poem? Or a song? Or something that falls somewhere in between?<\/p>\n<p>Because on paper, it looks like a song. But Church isn\u2019t singing the words. He\u2019s merely speaking them. Like a poet or a preacher or just someone with a lot of deep thoughts and a platform to share them. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s title the work, \u201cThrough My Ray-Bans,\u201d and it goes like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9P8n5-UorTA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9P8n5-UorTA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Where there once were roars<br \/>Now there are just echos<br \/>The handshakes and the hugs of yore are now too dangerous<br \/>But I don\u2019t believe in fear, I don\u2019t believe in panic<br \/>I don\u2019t believe in all this complexity<br \/>This damn virus has any idea what it\u2019s up against:<br \/>The American resolve: steeled by the world, steadied by faith, calmed by song,<br \/>healed by prayer<br \/>Oh, I believe, damn right, I believe<br \/>I believe these halls will roar again<br \/>These stadiums will be deafening and the answer to this enemy<br \/>The silence of now will cower at the noise of soon<br \/>When the question of who will answer this call is asked<br \/>Thousands will raise their fists and say, \u201cI will, we will.\u201d<br \/>And we damn sure will<br \/>Where fear preys, we will feed<br \/>Where pestilence stalks, we will hunt<br \/>I feel for our enemy, for it has no chance, it has no prayer<br \/>And I believe, I believe our best is yet to come.<br \/>We shall rage<br \/>We shall roar<br \/>I cannot wait to see you again through my Ray Bans<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1820413\/did-eric-church-just-pen-a-pandemic-poem-or-did-he-write-a-country-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 35m ago There\u2019s a new Eric Church video going viral, and we aren\u2019t exactly sure what it is. A poem? Or a song? Or something that falls somewhere in between? Because on paper, it looks like a song. But Church isn\u2019t singing the words. He\u2019s merely speaking them. Like a poet or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 21:18:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}