{"id":18631,"date":"2020-07-14T06:51:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=18631"},"modified":"2020-08-13T05:34:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T13:34:46","slug":"18631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=18631","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Unknown1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Unknown1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Unknown\" width=\"330\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Unknown1.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Unknown1-150x93.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Unknown1-300x187.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>YES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Yes Album<\/em> was recorded at the Lyceum Theatre in London 50 years ago this week. It was the beginning of a string of three landmark records by the band Yes, each outdoing the previous one with all original songs. They all went Platinum in the U.S.: <em>The Yes Album<\/em>, <em>Fragile<\/em>, and <em>Close To the Edge<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>(Yes Art: Roger Dean) <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Starship Troopers<\/em> originally appeared as a novel by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959, then as a song by Yes for <em>The Yes Album<\/em> in 1971. In 1977, Starship Troopers were visually portrayed in the George Lucas film <em>Star Wars<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"330\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntIVKsHFmn4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YES The Yes Album was recorded at the Lyceum Theatre in London 50 years ago this week. It was the beginning of a string of three landmark records by the band Yes, each outdoing the previous one with all original songs. They all went Platinum in the U.S.: The Yes Album, Fragile, and Close To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=18631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/18631"}],"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=18631"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19190,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions\/19190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}