{"id":5147,"date":"2025-06-14T04:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2025-06-26T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:17:08","slug":"a-thing-of-flippin-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/?p=5147","title":{"rendered":"A Thing of Flippin&#8217; Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Flaming Lips - Will You Return \/ When You Come Down [Official Music Video]\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DgWaChX1cno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love this song and video so much. The music is gorgeous, poignant, sad and peaceful at the same time. The visuals are intimate and soothing in their simplicity, just lovely close-ups of each of the band members, and the occasional gentle tinkling of a toy xylophone. Their separation from each other behind plastic walls was likely a Covid measure, but also serves the vibe of the song.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Will you return\/When you come down&#8221; from the LP &#8220;American Head&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this song and video so much. The music is gorgeous, poignant, sad and peaceful at the same time. The visuals are intimate and soothing in their simplicity, just lovely close-ups of each of the band members, and the occasional gentle tinkling of a toy xylophone. Their separation from each other behind plastic walls [&hellip;]<\/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":["post-5147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diggin-it","rsfv-has-video"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5166,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}