{"id":1075,"date":"2002-12-08T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-08T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2002-12-08T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-08T22:47:00","slug":"remembering-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Remembering John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lennon, one of the Beatles, some would say the important one but I&#8217;d disagree with that, was killed twenty-two years ago today. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite Lennon tunes is &#8220;Jealous Guy&#8221; from John&#8217;s <i>Imagine<\/i> album.  It once had different words.  Once it was a song called &#8220;Child of Nature&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the road to Rishikesh<br \/>\nI was dreaming more or less.<br \/>\nAnd the dream I had was true.<br \/>\nYes, the dream I had was true.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just a child of nature,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t need much to set me free.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just child of nature,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m one of nature&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n<p>Sunlight shining in your eyes<br \/>\nAs I face the desert skies,<br \/>\nAnd my thoughts return to home.<br \/>\nYes, my thoughts return to home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just a child of nature,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t need much to set me free.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just a child of nature,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m one of nature&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath the mountain ranges,<br \/>\nWhere the wind that never changes,<br \/>\nTouch the windows of my soul&#8211;<br \/>\nTouch the windows of my soul.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just a child of nature,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t need much to set me free.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just a child of nature,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m one of nature&#8217;s children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peace, John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lennon, one of the Beatles, some would say the important one but I&#8217;d disagree with that, was killed twenty-two years ago today. \ud83d\ude41 One of my favorite Lennon tunes is &#8220;Jealous Guy&#8221; from John&#8217;s Imagine album. It once had different words. Once it was a song called &#8220;Child of Nature&#8221;&#8230; On the road to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1075\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Remembering John&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-john-lennon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}