{"id":347,"date":"2012-11-11T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/in-the-long-history-of-love-songs-the-attention-of-a-beautiful\/"},"modified":"2012-11-11T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T02:44:00","slug":"in-the-long-history-of-love-songs-the-attention-of-a-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/in-the-long-history-of-love-songs-the-attention-of-a-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"In the long history of love songs the attention of a beautiful&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new-aesthetic.tumblr.com\/post\/35439313005\">In the long history of love songs the attention of a beautiful&#8230;<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the long history of love songs the attention of a beautiful woman has been compared to many things \u2013 but perhaps only in Pakistan\u2019s tribal belt would it be likened to the deadly missile strike of a remotely controlled US drone.<br \/>In a sign of how the routine hunting down and killing of militants by unmanned CIA planes has leached into the popular imagination, drones have been given a starring role in a new romantic song.<br \/>In most respects the track, which is proving popular in the largely Pashtun city of Peshawar, is faithful to standard themes of the genre. The lyrics mention rosebuds and wine. o blaring music it celebrates the allures of a temptress with \u201csweet lips\u201d and a \u201csmile fresh as early dew\u201d which \u201censnares lovers with amorous pangs\u201d.<br \/>Then the repeated chorus: \u201cMy gaze is as fatal as a drone attack\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.guardiannews.com\/world\/2012\/sep\/19\/pakistan-drone-love-song\">Pakistan drone attack love song racks up YouTube hits &#8211; The Guardian<\/a><br \/>za kaom pa stargo stargo drone hamla &#8211; Da Khkulo Badshahi Da Film Song &#8211; Dua Qureshi (by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dVgkAYDfdtQ\">tungtakordotcom<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the long history of love songs the attention of a beautiful&#8230;: In the long history of love songs the attention of a beautiful woman has been compared to many things \u2013 but perhaps only in Pakistan\u2019s tribal belt would it be likened to the deadly missile strike of a remotely controlled US drone.In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-5B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}