{"id":1859,"date":"2012-09-24T11:34:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2012-09-24T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T15:34:27","slug":"surprisingly-cogent-observations-on-dylan-in-context-of-his-relationship-with-john-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly cogent observations on Dylan in context of his relationship with John Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bob-Dylan-performs-in-201-008.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1860\" title=\"Bob Dylan performs in 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bob-Dylan-performs-in-201-008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bob-Dylan-performs-in-201-008.jpeg 460w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bob-Dylan-performs-in-201-008-300x180.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2012\/09\/bob-dylan-and-john-lennons-weird-one-sided-relationship\/262680\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>, on why Dylan included a song about John Lennon on the new album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobdylan.com\/us\/music\/tempest\">Tempest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because Dylan deals in myth. It informs his output as much, if not more, than the actual people in his life. Dylan uses motifs like floods and trains in order to wrestle universalities down and trap them in his verses. He, like Lennon, will always be associated with the 1960s, but more than any other major artist from that period he has always written songs that are designed to transcend the context in which they were created.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Atlantic, on why Dylan included a song about John Lennon on the new album Tempest: Because Dylan deals in myth. It informs his output as much, if not more, than the actual people in his life. Dylan uses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[94,1418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}