{"id":7615,"date":"2025-11-25T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:35:10","slug":"maui-in-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7615","title":{"rendered":"Maui In Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maui In Butterflies\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3XjgVproc0?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<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/rickwesthorpe\/maui-in-butterflies?ref=release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"202\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/group.jpg\" alt=\"Buy \/ Stream\" class=\"wp-image-7591\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a reworking of a song I wrote in the 70s called &#8216;Bitter Love&#8217;. I&#8217;ve kept the &#8216;love&#8217; part but the bitterness has gone, and the song is as much about where I live, as it is about lost relationships.  Phil is helping me out with saxophone and mixing once again, and lifting the song onto a whole other level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the day I&#8217;m walking across the hillside with my dog, and we both stop and catch our breath as the butterflies rise from the long grass &#8211; how did we end up in such a wonderful place? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gooseberry pie anyone? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you can get Bluestones coffee here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bluestonescoffee.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluestone Coffee website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a reworking of a song I wrote in the 70s called &#8216;Bitter Love&#8217;. I&#8217;ve kept the &#8216;love&#8217; part but the bitterness has gone, and the song is as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}