{"id":3152,"date":"2016-01-09T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T01:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2016-02-03T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T00:00:13","slug":"back-in-the-ussr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Back in the USSR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"USSR\"<\/a><\/p>\n

click on image for larger view:<\/p>\n

Title: “Back in the USSR”
\nMedium: acrylic on canvas
\nSize: 24″X 36″<\/p>\n

Story: I always loved this song because of my experience in the former
\nSoviet Union. I was fascinated by the changes about to take place there
\nand felt that the world might have a chance after all. Mikhail Gorbachev
\ndescribed how the Soviet Union system was not working. He also said that
\nthe west’s capitalist system also needed change.<\/p>\n

The Soviet Union went through radical change. The west on the other
\nhand, simply announced victory.<\/p>\n

Paul McCartney said that he loved how young people could always reach
\nout to other cultures…..”hands across the water” \u00a0he said, and I
\nincluded that thought in this painting because I agreed.<\/p>\n

3 minute video “Changing our world one corner at a time”\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bm5DIIpYmAE<\/a><\/p>\n

Lyrics:
\nhttp:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/b\/beatles\/back+in+the+ussr_10026511.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Youtubes of the song:<\/p>\n

Version with some interesting airport and crowd footage:
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kHD5nd3QLTg<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul McCartney performs it live in Kiev 2008
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XrtnnLor2UM<\/a><\/p>\n

Billy Joel covered the song in 1987
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=42Tah0DCubg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

click on image for larger view:<\/p>\n

Title: “Back in the USSR” Medium: acrylic on canvas Size: 24″X 36″<\/p>\n

Story: I always loved this song because of my experience in the former Soviet Union. I was fascinated by the changes about to take place there and felt that the world might have a chance after […]<\/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-3152","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\/3152","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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}