{"id":6705,"date":"2012-11-05T20:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2012-11-05T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:10:12","slug":"on-paul-mccartney-the-election-and-his-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6705","title":{"rendered":"On Paul McCartney, the Election, and His Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excepting Twitter, this is my last word on politics until Wednesday, and that&#8217;s a promise. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Paul McCartney and his band make an endorsement in the 2012 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1pfbe9GzPyg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I realized something watching that little video.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s band has been together together for a decade.  While the Beatles were a band for longer than that, the John\/Paul\/George\/Ringo line-up didn&#8217;t quite last eight years.  Paul&#8217;s new band has outlasted that.<\/p>\n<p>Keyboardist Wix Wickens has been working with Paul since as far back as 1989&#8217;s <i>Flowers in the Dirt<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Rusty Anderson and drummer Abe Laboriel, Jr. started working with McCartney on 2001&#8217;s <i>Driving Rain<\/i> album.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Brian Ray started with 2002&#8217;s <i>Driving USA<\/i> concert tour.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years.<\/p>\n<p>While Paul didn&#8217;t work with them for <i>Kisses on the Bottom<\/i>, they are recording an album for release next year.<\/p>\n<p>The things one realizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excepting Twitter, this is my last word on politics until Wednesday, and that&#8217;s a promise. \ud83d\ude42 Paul McCartney and his band make an endorsement in the 2012 presidential election. I realized something watching that little video. Paul&#8217;s band has been together together for a decade. While the Beatles were a band for longer than that,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6705\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Paul McCartney, the Election, and His Band&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[118,206,96],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-2012-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-paul-mccartney","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705","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=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}