{"id":23704,"date":"2020-07-07T08:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23704"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:01:04","slug":"happy-80th-birthday-ringo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/happy-80th-birthday-ringo\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 80th Birthday, Ringo!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I woke up today and was reminded on public radio that it&#8217;s Ringo&#8217;s birthday, his 80th! The first thing I thought was, &#8220;Wow, just thinking about Ringo makes me feel good! He&#8217;s the perfect antidote to these times.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, his song &#8220;Photograph&#8221; came on the radio, and as happens any time that song kicks in &#8211; pre-pandemic, pandemic, and eventually post-pandemic &#8211; I teared up. There&#8217;s so much empathy in that song, in Ringo&#8217;s delivery, in the arrangement. If I&#8217;m ever required to tear up, something that isn&#8217;t too hard to get me to do, play me &#8220;Photograph&#8221; or Elton John&#8217;s &#8220;Daniel.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a John Guy with a strong Paul Sensibility lurking in the background, but I&#8217;m going to let Ringo be my co-pilot today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ringo Starr Photograph\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LcOZWroUDE0?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up today and was reminded on public radio that it&#8217;s Ringo&#8217;s birthday, his 80th! The first thing I thought was, &#8220;Wow, just thinking about Ringo makes me feel good! He&#8217;s the perfect antidote to these times.&#8221; Last week, his song &#8220;Photograph&#8221; came on the radio, and as happens any time that song kicks <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/happy-80th-birthday-ringo\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704"}],"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=23704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}