{"id":28027,"date":"2017-10-31T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=28027"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:36:28","slug":"tom-waits-for-everyone-and-a-world-without-walls-check-out-waits-infused-piano-player-at-banksys-walled-off-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-10\/tom-waits-for-everyone-and-a-world-without-walls-check-out-waits-infused-piano-player-at-banksys-walled-off-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Waits For Everyone and A World Without Walls&#8211;Check Out Waits-Infused Piano-Player At Banksy&#8217;s Walled Off Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WOHPiano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-28029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WOHPiano-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WOHPiano-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WOHPiano-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WOHPiano-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WOHPiano-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WOHPiano.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We interrupt this string of &#8220;Strong-Young-Female-Artists&#8221; to bring you the following public-service message: to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Britain\u2019s takeover of Palestine, the inimitable Hall of Famer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomwaits.com\/\"><strong> Tom Waits<\/strong> <\/a>recorded an instrumental take on his forlorn and pensive song <em><strong>Innocent When You Dream<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0to play on a player-piano in the lobby of the oft-imitated artist\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/\">Banksy\u2019<\/a>s <a href=\"http:\/\/walledoffhotel.com\/index.html\">Walled Off Hotel<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The <strong>Walled Off Hotel<\/strong> is physically adjacent to the wall that separates Israel and Palestine. To find out more about the <strong>Walled Off Hotel<\/strong> and its&#8217; raison d&#8217;etre, there are good answers to be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/walledoffhotel.com\/questions.html\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Asked why he would put a hotel at this location, <strong>Banksy<\/strong> aptly reminds: &#8220;This place is the centre of the universe &#8211; every time God comes to earth it seems to happen near.&#8221; Keep on praying for a world without walls.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tomwaits\/videos\/10156869697379126\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> to watch\/hear Wait&#8217;s player-piano version of <em><strong>Innocent When You Dream<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We interrupt this string of &#8220;Strong-Young-Female-Artists&#8221; to bring you the following public-service message: to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Britain\u2019s takeover of Palestine, the inimitable Hall of Famer Tom Waits recorded an instrumental take on his forlorn and pensive song Innocent When You Dream\u00a0to play on a player-piano in the lobby of the oft-imitated artist\u00a0Banksy\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28033,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions\/28033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}