{"id":31513,"date":"2025-02-24T21:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/u2-releases-piano-piece-to-mark-third-anniversary-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T21:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:02:26","slug":"u2-releases-piano-piece-to-mark-third-anniversary-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/u2-releases-piano-piece-to-mark-third-anniversary-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 releases piano piece to mark third anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-24\/M_U2ABC_091823.png\" alt><figcaption>ABC\/Randy Holmes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>U2<\/strong> has marked the third anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion\u00a0of Ukraine with the release of a reading\u00a0set to a piano piece.<\/p>\n<p>In a post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DGcjjDxRNYq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>on Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Bono<\/strong> shares that the song and reading\u00a0of the poem, \u201cMy Friendly Epistle\u201d by 19th century poet <strong>Taras Shevchenko<\/strong>, is one\u00a0he and <strong>The Edge<\/strong>\u00a0sent to Ukrainian President <strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> just after the invasion began. He notes that Shevchenko\u00a0is a poet who \u201cdefined \u2018Ukrainian-ness\u2019 for so many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll who believe in freedom and sense the jeopardy we Europeans now find ourselves in are not sleeping easily on this, the third anniversary of the invasion,\u201d\u00a0Bono writes. \u201cMore to say about this and other bewilderments later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0post includes the entire poem written out. It\u00a0ends with the line, &#8220;Then in your own house you will see\u2028True justice, strength, and liberty!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/Randy Holmes U2 has marked the third anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion\u00a0of Ukraine with the release of a reading\u00a0set to a piano piece. In a post on Instagram, Bono shares that the song and reading\u00a0of the poem, \u201cMy Friendly Epistle\u201d by 19th century poet Taras Shevchenko, is one\u00a0he and The Edge\u00a0sent<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/u2-releases-piano-piece-to-mark-third-anniversary-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine\/\">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":[50,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31513"}],"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=31513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}