{"id":17831,"date":"2012-11-07T08:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2012-11-07T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:10:28","slug":"illustration-re-creating-john-lennons-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/illustration-re-creating-john-lennons-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustration: Re-creating John Lennon&#039;s poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beatles fan Peter Dean enlisted woodcarver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andyenglish.com\">Andy English<\/a> in re-creating a Victorian circus poster\u00a0that inspired John Lennon to write the song <em>Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!<\/em>, which appeared on The Beatles&#8217; 1967 album <em>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music room. While writing for <em>Sgt. Pepper<\/em> one day, he drew inspiration from the quirky, old-fashioned language and set the words to music\u2026\u00a0It is <a href=\"http:\/\/kiteprint.com\/products\/mr-kite-limited-edition\">printed in a limited edition<\/a> of 1,967.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user7817805\">Make Productions<\/a>\u00a0nicely tells the story:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/50892862?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=1db4c2\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/10\/john-lennons-poster\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beatles fan Peter Dean enlisted woodcarver Andy English in re-creating a Victorian circus poster\u00a0that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles&#8217; 1967 album Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band: Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}