{"id":858,"date":"2012-07-06T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2020-10-04T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:26:28","slug":"randy-wells-photography-classic-porsche-automotive-travel-music-video-reviews-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/570706_quarrymen_03-580x387.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/570706_quarrymen_03-580x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"570706_quarrymen_03-580x387\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/570706_quarrymen_03-580x387.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/570706_quarrymen_03-580x387-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN LENNON MET MCCARTNEY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>55 years ago, on the afternoon of July 6th 1957, a skiffle group called The Quarrymen played in the garden of St Peter&#8217;s Church in Liverpool. While setting up their equipment to play, the bass player, Ivan Vaughan, introduced the band to one of his classmates from Liverpool Institute, the 15-year-old Paul McCartney. John Lennon, lead singer and guitarist for the group, was one year older than McCartney. The pair chatted for a few minutes, and McCartney even showed Lennon how to tune a guitar. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>About two weeks later McCartney was invited to join the band, which would become The Beatles, and the rest is history.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN LENNON MET MCCARTNEY 55 years ago, on the afternoon of July 6th 1957, a skiffle group called The Quarrymen played in the garden of St Peter&#8217;s Church in Liverpool. While setting up their equipment to play, the bass player, Ivan Vaughan, introduced the band to one of his classmates from Liverpool Institute, the 15-year-old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=858\" 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\/858"}],"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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20637,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/20637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}