{"id":22332,"date":"2015-03-08T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22332"},"modified":"2015-03-15T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T19:08:19","slug":"i-swear-i-thought-this-was-sketch-comedy-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-swear-i-thought-this-was-sketch-comedy-or-something\/","title":{"rendered":"I Swear I Thought This Was Sketch Comedy or Something&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/63e8WRjiPyc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but it&#8217;s not. More confirmation in my mind that Paul McCartney has actually gone insane, and a surprise gold star for the Eric Clapton page in my book. Eric&#8217;s reactions to PM&#8217;s weirdnesses are priceless.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, I recently made myself read May Pang&#8217;s memoir of her years with John Lennon (found in a thrift store for a buck or two), and it contained a couple &#8212; just a couple, mind you &#8212; of nuggets. Number one: evidently, Paul McCartney has the irritating habit, if there&#8217;s a musical instrument of any kind in the room, of drifting away from whatever conversation he&#8217;s having and sneaking over to play something &#8212; anything &#8212; whether he&#8217;s asked to or not.<\/p>\n<p>Number two: John Lennon&#8217;s favorite song in 1978 was&#8230; &#8220;Reminiscing,&#8221; by the Little River Band. Yes, nine years after recording this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S_ScyKztGA0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Lennon was grooving to this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CZ_3G4xqSDQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not sure what to make of all this.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but it&#8217;s not. More confirmation in my mind that Paul McCartney has actually gone insane, and a surprise gold star for the Eric Clapton page in my book. Eric&#8217;s reactions to PM&#8217;s weirdnesses are priceless. In related news, I recently made myself read May Pang&#8217;s memoir of her years with John Lennon (found in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-swear-i-thought-this-was-sketch-comedy-or-something\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22332"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}