{"id":12078,"date":"2015-12-20T03:10:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2015-12-21T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T03:02:11","slug":"id-rather-listen-to-lennons-music-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12078","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d rather listen to Lennon&#8217;s music tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/John-Lennon-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12079\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12079\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/John-Lennon-1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"John-Lennon-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/John-Lennon-1-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/John-Lennon-1-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/John-Lennon-1.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud of myself.<\/p>\n<p>I had a chance tonight to watch three Democrats debate each other over which of them should be their party&#8217;s presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I turned away. I&#8217;m watching an American Movie Classics musical tribute to someone who means more to me at this moment than any presidential candidate in either party.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get back to you folks in a few days. I promise.<\/p>\n<p>The late John Lennon would have turned 75 on Oct. 9. AMC aired a special tonight with some damn good musicians playing many of the songs John made famous &#8212; as a solo artist and when he played in that pretty good rock band, The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll read about the Democrats&#8217; debate in the morning. Tonight, I&#8217;m chillin&#8217; out to some music from a guy who helped raise me.<\/p>\n<p>I still miss him.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, John.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proud of myself. I had a chance tonight to watch three Democrats debate each other over which of them should be their party&#8217;s presidential nominee. Instead, I turned away. I&#8217;m watching an American Movie Classics musical tribute to someone who means more to me at this moment than any presidential candidate in either party. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;d rather listen to Lennon&#8217;s music tonight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5785,5544,2543,4749],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-amc","tag-democratic-debate","tag-john-lennon","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12104,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}