{"id":516,"date":"2011-10-31T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T08:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=516"},"modified":"2011-11-02T22:27:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T22:27:51","slug":"uk-yankee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Changing of the Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16 years ago my wife and I arrived in Britain on a temporary visa. While thinking about that this song popped into my head, if only because of the first line. When I looked up the lyrics <em><\/em> <em><\/em> &#8212; because of course it has its own Wikipedia page &#8212; I see that it was released as a single in late October 1978, when I was 12. Incidentally, the B-side was <em>Se\u00f1or (Tales of Yankee Power).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uekeL3Qv2yk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Much as I like Dylan singing his own songs, covers are more fun, at least when it comes to YouTubing. That&#8217;s a Polish woman apologising for not knowing all the words. Don&#8217;t worry, I want to tell her, Dylan probably changes them half the time anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 years ago my wife and I arrived in Britain on a temporary visa. While thinking about that this song popped into my head, if only because of the first line. When I looked up the lyrics &#8212; because of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}