{"id":25,"date":"2013-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:07:00","slug":"imagine-by-john-lennon-my-greatest-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/imagine-by-john-lennon-my-greatest-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine by John Lennon \u2013 My Greatest Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>I started playing this song publicly starting on 9\/11\/01 \u2013 the day that has gone down in as one of the most emotional days in the history of the world.<\/p>\n<p>In this video exactly 10 years later, I was invited to perform in front of a live audience of thousands and an online audience of tens of thousands for the 10th anniversary of 9\/11 at Seattle Center.<\/p>\n<p>Little did I know that a tiny moment in a restaurant ten years prior would lead to me being on stage in front of thousands of people live \u2013 and tens of thousands of people broadcast through Peace Day TV on the Internet \u2013 I believe we had over 55,000 people watch the live broadcast on the Internet.  Later it was re-broadcast in clips for Peace Day and later on the United Nations website for the Day of Peace.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMany times in life we measure our success by money and fame. This success story is about the heart. On 9\/11 my heart was opened. When you hear this music you will feel my heart as well. This is really who we are.<\/p>\n<p>My greatest success story isn\u2019t about how much money I made \u2013 it is about how many hearts I\u2019ve touched with my music.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until I joined Empower Network that I had the courage to take this video clip that was sitting there on my hard disk and put it \u2018out\u2019 there into the world. We often times think we\u2019re not good enough to share who we truly are.<\/p>\n<p>As this video demonstrates \u2013 we had over 20x the audience watching the 9\/11 concerts on the Internet than were in the stadium itself. Through the power of online video we can reach a much wider audience than we can in person.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s a piano anywhere in Denver at the <a href=\"\/earthgrid\/blog\/chicago-event-opening-music-video\/\" title=\"Empower Network Event Music Video\">next big Empower Event<\/a> I\u2019ll play this song for you. <a href=\"\/theylovetobuy.php?id=earthgrid\">Join me there.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThank you, John, for inspiring me and millions of people around the world to have a vision of peace. <\/p>\n<p>May the world live as one!\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004JQUZG0\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004JQUZG0&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=empownetwo0bc-20\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/earthgrid\/files\/2013\/06\/John-Lennon-Imagine.jpg\" alt=\"John-Lennon-Imagine\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-918\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started playing this song publicly starting on 9\/11\/01 \u2013 the day that has gone down in as one of the most emotional days in the history of the world. In this video exactly 10 years later, I was invited to perform in front of a live audience of thousands and an online audience of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6,7,89,37,35,3,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ac-dc-tour","category-advertising","category-android","category-concerts","category-marketing","category-music","category-my-story","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/earthgrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}