{"id":110024,"date":"2019-09-13T01:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/13\/the-beatles-strawberry-fields-opens-forever\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T01:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:22:35","slug":"the-beatles-strawberry-fields-opens-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=110024","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles\u2019 Strawberry Fields opens forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans will no longer have to peer through the gates \u2013 the Salvation Army garden immortalised by John Lennon is opening for the first time, with an interactive exhibition\u201cLet me take you down, \u2019cause I\u2019m going to Strawberry Fields\u201d urged John Lennon in 1967. Now, for the first time, everyone will be able to walk in his footsteps, when the gardens immortalised in the classic Beatles song are opened to the public on 14 September, alongside a new visitors\u2019 centre, cafe and shop. Housed in a sleek, modern, light-filled building, it is a stark contrast to the original Gothic mansion that stood there when Lennon was a young boy and would bunk over the wall to climb trees and play hide-and-seek in its garden. Built in 1878 for a shipping magnate in the wealthy Liverpool suburb of Woolton (the family of prime minister William Gladstone lived nearby, in another long-gone pile) it was bought by the Salvation Army in 1934 and turned into a children\u2019s home. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2019\/sep\/13\/the-beatles-john-lennon-strawberry-field-liverpool-opens-to-public\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles\u2019 Strawberry Fields opens forever<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans will no longer have to peer through the gates \u2013 the Salvation Army garden immortalised by John Lennon is opening for the first time, with an interactive exhibition\u201cLet me take you down, \u2019cause I\u2019m going to Strawberry Fields\u201d urged John Lennon in 1967. Now, for the first time, everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}