{"id":18624,"date":"2026-03-17T01:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=18624"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:15:45","slug":"18624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=18624","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/719EBGs4ML._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/719EBGs4ML._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/719EBGs4ML._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg 560w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/719EBGs4ML._UF10001000_QL80_-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/719EBGs4ML._UF10001000_QL80_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HAPPY ST. PAT&#8217;S WITH YES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Yes Album<\/em> blows me away even today, followed closely by <em>Fragile<\/em> and <em>Close to the Edge<\/em>. I introduced my poetry class in high school to them in 1971. Lots of great choices are available in LP pressings now. <\/p>\n<p>(Cover Photo: Phil Franks)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY ST. PAT&#8217;S WITH YES The Yes Album blows me away even today, followed closely by Fragile and Close to the Edge. I introduced my poetry class in high school to them in 1971. Lots of great choices are available in LP pressings now. (Cover Photo: Phil Franks)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18624"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29976,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions\/29976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}