{"id":767,"date":"2012-08-16T01:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T07:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2012-08-09T02:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T08:19:22","slug":"mccartney-paid-1-pound-1-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/mccartney-paid-1-pound-1-57\/","title":{"rendered":"McCartney paid 1 pound ($1.57)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.foxsports.com\/content\/fscom\/img\/2012\/07\/27\/072712-OLYMPICS-opening-ceremony-LN-G29_20120727210800652_600_400.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> London Olympic organizers say former Beatle Paul McCartney and other star performers who took part in Friday&#8217;s opening ceremony essentially donated their time, receiving a mere pound ($1.57) for their performances.<\/p>\n<p>The nominal fee was offered to make the Olympics contracts binding, but pales in comparison to the millions big names like McCartney can command for a stadium gig.<\/p>\n<p>Other performers such as Mike Oldfield, Dizzee Rascal and Emeli Sande are also thought to have received the nominal fee.<\/p>\n<p>Director Danny Boyle&#8217;s &#8221;Isles of Wonder&#8221; extravaganza featured British music that spanned generations, right up to live performances from two of the hottest homegrown acts of the moment: grime star Rascal and the band Arctic Monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Olympic organizers say former Beatle Paul McCartney and other star performers who took part in Friday&#8217;s opening ceremony essentially donated their time, receiving a mere pound ($1.57) for their performances. The nominal fee was offered to make the Olympics contracts binding, but pales in comparison to the millions big names like McCartney can command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}