{"id":84,"date":"2009-02-11T23:39:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T23:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-02-21T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T17:35:41","slug":"abbey-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is &#8211; the famous recording studio that was named after the album the Beatles recorded there that was named after the road the studio was on*.  Excellent!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4Xwr5GUxpo?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(*Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbey_road\">that&#8217;s true.<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>I started to shoot some footage of the famous crosswalk, but the batteries on my flip vid died.  Thus saving the quiet village of St. John&#8217;s Wood from yet another tourist going &#8220;Ooh look, I&#8217;m crossing the road just like the Beatles!  Ooo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I did, however, cross the road just like the Beatles.  I felt special.<\/p>\n<p>(Also, I realize now that that doesn&#8217;t actually say &#8220;Oasis is King&#8221;.  It actually says &#8220;Oasis hearts Kim. E.&#8221; No idea.  At any rate, Oasis is shitty and overhyped just like that graffito.)<\/p>\n<p>Update:  Check out this great time-lapse video of an entire day of tourists reenacting the album cover.  Good for a chuckle:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKCG3zMEsYs?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is &#8211; the famous recording studio that was named after the album the Beatles recorded there that was named after the road the studio was on*. Excellent! (*Yes, that&#8217;s true. ) I started to shoot some footage of the famous crosswalk, but the batteries on my flip vid died. Thus saving the quiet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}