{"id":44719,"date":"2020-10-09T18:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44719"},"modified":"2020-10-09T18:43:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:43:02","slug":"happy-birthday-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44719","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=JohnLennon%20%23Lennonbirthday&#038;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\"><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=\"\" 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><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, what does one say about a birthday commemorating one of modern culture&#8217;s most iconic figures?<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday? Sure, why not?<\/p>\n<p>Today is John Lennon&#8217;s 80th birthday. You&#8217;ve heard of him, yes? He founded the band that in the early 1960s transformed popular music forever. Their music still stands, nearly six decades later.<\/p>\n<p>John Lennon was my favorite Beatle. I guess it had something to do with our shared names. Hey, I was a kid when The Beatles stormed across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Over the ensuing years &#8212; brief as they were &#8212; The Beatles helped raise me. I have said for years that John Lennon and\u00a0 his pals were a big part of my life. He and his best pal in the group, Paul McCartney, wrote arguably the most classic music of that &#8212; or perhaps any &#8212; cultural era.<\/p>\n<p>John Lennon&#8217;s life ended tragically. We&#8217;re going to mark that date in December, 40 years after that a**hole shot John to death in front of his wife and at the front door of his New York City apartment complex. Not too many years ago, my wife and I visited NYC. We stood in front of the Dakota Building where John&#8217;s life ended; we walked through Central Park and saw the Strawberry Fields exhibit dedicated to John Lennon&#8217;s memory. It all filled with me with profound sadness.<\/p>\n<p>John Lennon was a complex man, but oh how he could write and then sing the songs that will last until the end of time.<\/p>\n<p>I miss him to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, John &#8230; and thank you for helping me grow up along the way.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=JohnLennon%20%23Lennonbirthday&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Well, what does one say about a birthday commemorating one of modern culture&#8217;s most iconic figures? Happy birthday? Sure, why not? Today is John Lennon&#8217;s 80th birthday. You&#8217;ve heard of him, yes? He founded the band that in the early 1960s transformed popular music forever. Their music still stands, nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy birthday, John<\/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":[2543,4749],"class_list":["post-44719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-john-lennon","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719","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=44719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44720,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719\/revisions\/44720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}