{"id":7910,"date":"2011-07-01T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:22:59","slug":"born-in-the-usa-and-other-awesome-songs-about-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2011\/07\/born-in-the-usa-and-other-awesome-songs-about-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Born in the USA! and other awesome songs about America"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7911\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/files\/2011\/06\/BruceSpringsteen1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7911\" title=\"Bruce Springsteen\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2011\/06\/BruceSpringsteen1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture Courtesy Jon Iraundegi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our music editor, Stephen Russ, put together a sweet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Love-Family\/Holidays\/July-4th\/10-Inspiring-Songs-About-America.aspx\">top 10 list of inspiring songs about America<\/a> just in time for 4th of July weekend. &#8220;Born in the USA&#8221; is obviously on there, as well as tunes by Neil Diamond and James Brown. 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