{"id":34811,"date":"2018-05-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home\/faith-doubt-and-pedro-the-lion\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T16:00:00","slug":"faith-doubt-and-pedro-the-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/faith-doubt-and-pedro-the-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith, doubt, and Pedro the Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When musician David Bazan began his career in the mid-1990s, he was a faithful young man going to a Christian college in Kirkland. In the beginning, he put that faith into his music. But over time, he began to sing less and less about faith, and more and more about doubt. His band, Pedro the Lion, broke up in 2005, and he&rsquo;s built a solo career since, releasing albums that explore his breakup with Christianity as well as his anger toward corporate power, politics, and patriarchy. In late 2017, Bazan reunited the band, revisiting some of his old work&mdash;and his old doubts&mdash;through a very of-the-moment exploration of toxic masculinity. <em>Seattleland<\/em> editorial director Mark Baumgarten leads us on that complicated journey, talking with both Bazan and his fans to probe the depths of personal change made public and the role that faith and doubt can play in art and life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/8y6fh-91ed17?from=site&#038;skin=1&#038;share=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=0&#038;download=0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Featuring interviews with Mark Baumgarten, David Bazan, Nina Maldonado, Steven Heller, Leif Andersen, Nick Foster, Josh Morrison, and Noah Janes.<\/p>\n<p>Music by David Bazan, <a href=\"https:\/\/pedrothelion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro the Lion<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/promqueenmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leeni Ramadan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This week&rsquo;s cover photo is a portrait of David Bazan, taken by Ebru Yildiz.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How David Bazan&rsquo;s religious roots set the stage for his band&rsquo;s very relevant return. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":34812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[33],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-northwest","tag-seattleland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34811"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}