{"id":317,"date":"2021-01-21T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:01:41","slug":"coded-messages-the-underground-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/coded-messages-the-underground-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Coded Messages: The Underground Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We investigated the secret coded messages in the song, &#8220;Follow the Drinking Gourd&#8221;. This song was known as a &#8220;spiritual&#8221; and was sung by enslaved people to help send messages about how to escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a modern musician covering this song. What secret messages can you interpret? (Hint: the &#8220;drinking gourd&#8221; is a reference to a constellation containing the North Star).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eric Bibb - Follow The Drinking Gourd\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kjBZEMkmwYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We investigated the secret coded messages in the song, &#8220;Follow the Drinking Gourd&#8221;. This song was known as a &#8220;spiritual&#8221; and was sung by enslaved people to help send messages about how to escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad. Here is a modern musician covering this song. What secret messages can you interpret? (Hint: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/coded-messages-the-underground-railroad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coded Messages: The Underground Railroad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}