{"id":556,"date":"2017-04-07T22:34:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2017-04-07T22:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:34:42","slug":"feed-the-children-the-inspiration-for-this-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Feed The Children &#8211; The Inspiration for this Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Song Lovers,<br \/>\nI wrote the first version of&nbsp;the&nbsp;song <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/feedthechildren\">Feed The Children<\/a>&nbsp;over twenty years ago. My inspiration to write the song came one night when I turned on the&nbsp;tv&nbsp;at 1AM&nbsp;and saw an infomercial that showed the&nbsp;results of wide-spread famine. Seeing photographs and videos of children and adults who were dying from hunger moved me to give money to CARE and other non-profits who fed people and started my songwriting&nbsp;process.<\/p>\n<p>Why did it take me so long to finish the song and release it? Good question. The initial drafts of the lyrics didn&#8217;t take long to write, but I did endless tweaking.&nbsp;Then I got the idea of creating a &#8220;character&#8221;&nbsp;who would sing the song &#8211; a homeless mother with a hungry child&nbsp;&#8211; with their own set of narrative&nbsp;lyrics and a spoken narration that led to the singing of <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2n71ERl\">Feed The Children<\/a>. I worked a long time&nbsp;on that part, but finally decided that&nbsp;the three-part song would work better on stage than as an internet release. I may release that longer&nbsp;version later.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my story for now. Thanks for reading my posts and listening to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/spoti.fi\/2lYPFDB\">Feed The Children <\/a>and my other songs.<\/p>\n<p>Regards and best wishes; and remember, if you&#8217;re on your bike tonight &#8211; wear white.<\/p>\n<p>Reynold<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2n71ERl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"126\" class=\" wp-image-550\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Feed-The-Children-001-300x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Feed-The-Children-001-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Feed-The-Children-001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Feed-The-Children-001-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Feed-The-Children-001-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Feed-The-Children-001-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Feed-The-Children-001.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Song Lovers, I wrote the first version of&nbsp;the&nbsp;song Feed The Children&nbsp;over twenty years ago. My inspiration to write the song came one night when I turned on the&nbsp;tv&nbsp;at 1AM&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/?p=556\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,134,129,91,3,21],"tags":[15,125,14,141,11,5,9,136,133,24],"class_list":["entry","author-songguy","post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-feed-the-children","category-inspiration","category-reynold-singer-songwriter","category-reynoldsongs","category-songs","category-songwriting","tag-alt-rock","tag-alt-folk-pop","tag-alternate-rock","tag-feed-the-children","tag-music","tag-new-song","tag-original-song","tag-pop-song","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-songwriting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}