{"id":3126,"date":"2016-01-09T17:17:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T00:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2016-01-09T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T00:19:47","slug":"3126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=3126","title":{"rendered":"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3063\" alt=\"lucyinsky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky-300x157.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky-148x77.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky-31x16.jpg 31w, https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky-38x19.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky-410x215.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucyinsky.jpg 1647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>click on image to make larger:<\/p>\n<p>Title:&#8221;Lucy in the Sky with diamonds&#8221;<br \/>\nmedium: acrylic on canvas<br \/>\nSize: 24&#8243;X36&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>Story: Another one of my favourite songs. Lot\u2019s of words written on the<br \/>\nmeaning of this one. Trying to know the actual truth is difficult to<br \/>\nfigure out. I go with what John Lennon said. He \u00a0swore that it was not<br \/>\nabout LSD. He said his son Julian inspired the song with a nursery<br \/>\nschool drawing he called &#8220;Lucy\u2014in the sky with diamonds&#8221;. I guess we<br \/>\nwill never fully know the truth. He always pulled peoples legs in<br \/>\ninterviews etc.<\/p>\n<p>3 minute video on &#8220;Changing our world one corner at a time&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bm5DIIpYmAE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bm5DIIpYmAE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/b\/beatles\/lucy+in+the+sky+with+diamonds_10026681.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/b\/beatles\/lucy+in+the+sky+with+diamonds_10026681.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Youtubes of the song:<\/p>\n<p>Beatles original with lyrics:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eKXfqpg-Q-k\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eKXfqpg-Q-k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elton John recorded it in 1974<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ic2hlOwCif4\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ic2hlOwCif4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Lennon explains &#8211; he looks sincere but was he really pulling our leg?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VAZAdhPXQ2w\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VAZAdhPXQ2w<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>click on image to make larger:<\/p>\n<p>Title:&#8221;Lucy in the Sky with diamonds&#8221; medium: acrylic on canvas Size: 24&#8243;X36&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>Story: Another one of my favourite songs. Lot\u2019s of words written on the meaning of this one. Trying to know the actual truth is difficult to figure out. I go with what John Lennon said. He [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}