{"id":21038,"date":"2014-01-30T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21038"},"modified":"2014-01-30T14:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:47:40","slug":"and-the-gods-played-touch-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/and-the-gods-played-touch-football\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Gods Played Touch Football!"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"vvqbox vvqdailymotion\" style=\"width:480px;height:221px;\"><span id=\"vvq-21038-dailymotion-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xtrooe\">http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xtrooe<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>For me, The Beatles&#8217; rooftop performance from <em>Let It Be<\/em> is one of the most fascinating musical performances ever put to film. It&#8217;s not the &#8220;greatest&#8221; performance ever committed to film, or anything like that, but it&#8217;s like stumbling across the gods of Mount Olympus playing a pickup game of touch football on an open city lot. Just the still images of them playing live and in the studio on the cover for <em>Let It Be<\/em> resonate with me as deeply as they did when I first stared at them, as a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, The Beatles&#8217; rooftop performance from Let It Be is one of the most fascinating musical performances ever put to film. It&#8217;s not the &#8220;greatest&#8221; performance ever committed to film, or anything like that, but it&#8217;s like stumbling across the gods of Mount Olympus playing a pickup game of touch football on an open <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/and-the-gods-played-touch-football\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[578,24,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}