{"id":259717,"date":"2024-03-13T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=259717"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:30:21","slug":"rock-musicians-financed-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2024\/03\/13\/rock-musicians-financed-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock musicians financed Monty Python and the Holy Grail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"529\" data-attachment-id=\"259719\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2024\/03\/13\/rock-musicians-financed-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail\/image-12-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-12.png?fit=606%2C611&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"606,611\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-12\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-12.png?fit=525%2C529&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-12.png?resize=525%2C529&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-12.png?w=606&amp;ssl=1 606w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-12.png?resize=298%2C300&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-12.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-12.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update<\/strong>: Jamie McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/journa.host\/@jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social\/112089342309127597\">pointed out<\/a> on Mastodon that this isn&#8217;t 100 percent accurate. Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull did help finance The Holy Grail, but George Harrison didn&#8217;t &#8212; he did, however, mortgage his house <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/led-zeppelin-pink-floyd-jethro-tull-funded-monty-python-holy-grail\/\">to finance a different<\/a> Monty Python movie: Life of Brian.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Jamie McCarthy pointed out on Mastodon that this isn&#8217;t 100 percent accurate. Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull did help finance The Holy Grail, but George Harrison didn&#8217;t &#8212; he did, however, mortgage his house to finance a different Monty Python movie: Life of Brian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":true,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259727,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259717\/revisions\/259727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}