{"id":40384,"date":"2018-06-11T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=40384"},"modified":"2018-06-11T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T03:16:38","slug":"my-almost-husband-and-the-old-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/my-almost-husband-and-the-old-house\/","title":{"rendered":"My Almost-Husband and the Old House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all excited and nervous for someone I met once, briefly, four years ago. Sylvia was the nice woman who conducted the tour of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/happy-birthday-almost-husband-paul-mccartney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost-husband<\/a> Paul McCartney&#8217;s childhood home when I visited it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/wanderlust-2014-i-tuned-in-to-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Liverpool<\/a> in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_40385\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40385\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/macca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/macca.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/macca-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/macca-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me and my actual husband Paul outside my almost-husband Paul&#8217;s old house.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sylvia informed us that Sir Paul&#8217;s brother, Mike, had visited the house at 20 Forthlin Road, and she hoped that someday Paul would visit too and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/8460161\/paul-mccartney-james-corden-liverpool-visit-beatles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> OMIGOD PAUL MCCARTNEY WAS THERE THIS SATURDAY WITH TELEVISION HOST JAMES CORDEN<\/a>! They were in Liverpool to shoot one of Corden&#8217;s &#8220;Carpool Karaoke&#8221; segments. According to Variety, &#8220;someone in the house&#8221; told a different tour guide that Paul played &#8220;When I&#8217;m 64&#8221;\u00a0 on the piano at 20 Forthlin. I hope that person was Sylvia! Help! I need to know if Sylvia&#8217;s dream came true!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/l2SpQRuCQzY1RXHqM\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameBorder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/coffee-talk-verklempt-linda-richman-l2SpQRuCQzY1RXHqM\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oiJkANps0Qw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">verklempt<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all excited and nervous for someone I met once, briefly, four years ago. Sylvia was the nice woman who conducted the tour of my almost-husband Paul McCartney&#8217;s childhood home when I visited it in Liverpool in 2014. Sylvia informed us that Sir Paul&#8217;s brother, Mike, had visited the house at 20 Forthlin Road, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/my-almost-husband-and-the-old-house\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[726,36,10,42],"tags":[1581,937],"class_list":["post-40384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-entertainment","category-beatles","category-celebrities","category-music","tag-almost-husband","tag-paul-mccartney","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40387,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384\/revisions\/40387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}