{"id":5609,"date":"2011-02-03T22:32:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T03:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2011-02-03T22:32:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T03:32:26","slug":"on-beatles-archeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5609","title":{"rendered":"On Beatles Archeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I read Michael Moorcock&#8217;s <i>Doctor Who<\/i> novel, <i>The Coming of the Terraphiles<\/i>.  Set about 50,000 years in our future, the novel concerns itself with the Doctor and Amy&#8217;s adventures with a group of Earth re-enactors, the Terraphiles.  They think they know what Earth, circa 1900, was like, but what they have to go on is pulp fiction and <i>Sexton Blake<\/i> novels and old magazines.  In short, they have a very <i>skewed<\/i> view of what our time is like.<\/p>\n<p>How might future archeologists imagine the Beatles?  What things from the era might they decide, erroneously, have something to do with the Fab Four?  How accurate might their records be?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/scottgairdner.com\/2009\/11\/23\/beatles-3000\/\">Beatles 3000<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Z2vU8M6CYI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Z2vU8M6CYI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty freakin&#8217; sweet.  I&#8217;m impressed, and I laughed and I laughed some more.<\/p>\n<p>And, now for something silly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What if the Beatles were an Irish folk band?<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aFjH4ZqwOB4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aFjH4ZqwOB4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Now, for more writing research. :-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I read Michael Moorcock&#8217;s Doctor Who novel, The Coming of the Terraphiles. Set about 50,000 years in our future, the novel concerns itself with the Doctor and Amy&#8217;s adventures with a group of Earth re-enactors, the Terraphiles. They think they know what Earth, circa 1900, was like, but what they have to go<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5609\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Beatles Archeology&#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":[98],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","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=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}