{"id":30258,"date":"2024-08-30T21:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stevie-wonder-releases-new-song-can-we-fix-our-nations-broken-heart\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:02:57","slug":"stevie-wonder-releases-new-song-can-we-fix-our-nations-broken-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stevie-wonder-releases-new-song-can-we-fix-our-nations-broken-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder releases new song, &#8220;Can We Fix Our Nation\u2019s Broken Heart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-30\/Getty_steviewonderatdnc_083024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After appearing at night three of the Democratic National Convention, <strong>Stevie Wonder<\/strong> has now released a new song calling for unity.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his performance of &#8220;Higher Ground,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d7WwD5xmWPA&amp;t=269s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the crowd, <\/a>&#8220;We need to choose joy over anger, kindness over recrimination and peace over war. Every time! We must choose to be above the ugly words, the hateful anger and the division that those words and anger create. We must keep on keepin&#8217; on until we truly are a united people of these United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the gentle mid-tempo song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CEr7dbJ2MKo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Can We Fix Our Nation&#8217;s Broken Heart<\/a>,&#8221; Wonder sings, &#8220;Can we fix our nation\u2019s broken heart and leave a better world behind\/ Are we brave enough to try?\/ Because if we listen to different thoughts and points of view\/ Oh, my brothers and sisters \/ We don\u2019t have to lose\/ Humanity, we\u2019re family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song also features one of Wonder&#8217;s signature harmonica solos.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder hasn&#8217;t released an album since 2005, but he has put out a number of singles since then.<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CEr7dbJ2MKo\" title=\"Can We Fix Our Nation's Broken Heart\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images After appearing at night three of the Democratic National Convention, Stevie Wonder has now released a new song calling for unity. Ahead of his performance of &#8220;Higher Ground,&#8221; he told the crowd, &#8220;We need to choose joy over anger, kindness over recrimination and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stevie-wonder-releases-new-song-can-we-fix-our-nations-broken-heart\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,48],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}