{"id":35,"date":"2008-10-14T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T20:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lng.853.mytemp.website\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-10-14T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T20:56:44","slug":"ringo-wants-peace-and-love-and-no-more-fan-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Ringo Wants Peace and Love, and No More Fan Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.ringostarr.com\/video\/\/2008-10-10\/2008-10-10.mov\">Check out Mr. Starr here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does Ringo owe his fans anything? No. Does he have the right to stop signing things? Absolutely. Did his announcement make him come off as a total jerk? Um, Mr. Starr, there&#8217;s a Mr. Rich asking for you on line #2&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ringo, man, stop with the whole &#8220;Peace and love&#8221; bit. It only sounds that much more insincere, especially couched in your announcement to &#8220;toss&#8221; requests for an autograph. While you have a right not to be hounded by fans, your request makes you sound like a pompous, well, you know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not an autograph type of person. I have one autograph, and that&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toy_Caldwell\">Toy Caldwell<\/a> after my band opened up for him in Camden 15 years ago. I have never written to a star for an autograph, and never plan too. But Mr. Starr, your video really made me change my view on who I thought you were.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlie_Watts\">Charlie Watt&#8217;s<\/a> address?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Mr. Starr here. Does Ringo owe his fans anything? No. Does he have the right to stop signing things? Absolutely. Did his announcement make him come off as a total jerk? Um, Mr. Starr, there&#8217;s a Mr. Rich asking for you on line #2&#8230; Ringo, man, stop with the whole &#8220;Peace and love&#8221; &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=35\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-35","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}