{"id":707,"date":"2025-02-17T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=707"},"modified":"2025-02-17T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:08:41","slug":"mm-2-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/02\/17\/mm-2-17\/","title":{"rendered":"MM- 2.17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Perhaps Love - John Denver (with lyrics)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c-5bMO4nMuk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Perhaps Love<\/strong>&#8221; is a song that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Denver\">John Denver<\/a>&nbsp;wrote and recorded as a duet with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pl%C3%A1cido_Domingo\">Pl\u00e1cido Domingo<\/a>. The song appeared on Domingo&#8217;s 1981&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perhaps_Love_(album)\">album of the same title<\/a>. &#8220;Perhaps Love&#8221; is the only song on the album with Denver&#8217;s vocals alongside Domingo&#8217;s. Denver also appears on the album&#8217;s cover version of his composition &#8220;Annie&#8217;s Song&#8221;, where he accompanies Domingo on guitar. Released as a single with &#8220;Annie&#8217;s Song&#8221; on the B side, &#8220;Perhaps Love&#8221; peaked at #22 on the U.S.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)\">Adult Contemporary<\/a>&nbsp;chart and #59 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\"><em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Hot 100<\/a> in 1982.&nbsp; <sup><\/sup>Remaining in print, the song sold almost four million copies by 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps Love&#8221; was addressed to Denver&#8217;s wife Annie Martell (the eponym of his #1 hit &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Annie%27s_Song\">Annie&#8217;s Song<\/a>&#8220;) while they were separated and moving towards a divorce. In an interview the day after Denver&#8217;s death in 1997, Annie said that this was her favorite song of his, rather than &#8220;Annie&#8217;s Song&#8221; (which she also said she enjoyed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Perhaps Love&#8221; is a song that&nbsp;John Denver&nbsp;wrote and recorded as a duet with&nbsp;Pl\u00e1cido Domingo. The song appeared on Domingo&#8217;s 1981&nbsp;album of the same title. &#8220;Perhaps Love&#8221; is the only song on the album with Denver&#8217;s vocals alongside Domingo&#8217;s. Denver also appears on the album&#8217;s cover version of his composition &#8220;Annie&#8217;s Song&#8221;, where he accompanies Domingo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}