{"id":8033,"date":"2023-01-05T13:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2023-01-05T14:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:52:49","slug":"music-iron-maiden-go-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8033","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Iron Maiden Go Postal!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"890\" height=\"534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6219.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6219.jpg 890w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6219-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6219-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Steve Harris must be super-chuffed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Iron Maiden didn\u2019t trouble my recent top five post. But back in my mid-teens I was listening to them a lot. And I still do, occasionally. <em>Power Slave <\/em>was my favourite album back then, with <em>Piece of Mind<\/em> coming next. I\u2019m not so keen on their pre Nicko\/Dickinson stuff, and I haven\u2019t followed their later releases. By which I mean everything after <em>Live After Death<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, though I\u2019m not their biggest fan, it\u2019s nice to see them being honoured by the Royal Mail. They have their beers as well. So they\u2019ve really gotten into the bloodstream of the nation, and now the postal service as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done fellas! You\u2019ve earned it. Read more about this <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/jan\/05\/iron-maiden-royal-mail-seal-approval-12-stamps\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS &#8211; Not that I give a sh*t for anything to do with royalty\/monarchy. Butt\u2026 shouldn\u2019t it be Charles\u2019 head in profile on stamps now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Maiden didn\u2019t trouble my recent top five post. But back in my mid-teens I was listening to them a lot. And I still do, occasionally. Power Slave was my favourite album back then, with Piece of Mind coming next. I\u2019m not so keen on their pre Nicko\/Dickinson stuff, and I haven\u2019t followed their later &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Iron Maiden Go Postal!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[178,138,200,89,153,70,137,208,130,103,207,77,114,195,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-25z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}