{"id":56551,"date":"2024-02-09T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T13:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56551"},"modified":"2024-02-09T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T13:12:22","slug":"their-music-is-timeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56551","title":{"rendered":"Their music is timeless"},"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>Here&#8217;s a quickie quiz for you:<em> How many popular music acts can you name where children generations removed from their time in the spotlight can remember every lyric to every song they seemingly ever recorded?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time&#8217;s up. I can think of one: The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Maybe there are others.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it makes today such a special day in popular culture history. Sixty years ago this evening, TV variety show host Ed Sullivan introduced John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to America: <em>Here are &#8230; The Beatles!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was among the millions of youngsters who watched &#8217;em that night in our living room.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been singing their songs ever since. So have my sons and maybe one day so will my granddaughter.<\/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>Here&#8217;s a quickie quiz for you: How many popular music acts can you name where children generations removed from their time in the spotlight can remember every lyric to every song they seemingly ever recorded? Time&#8217;s up. I can think of one: The Beatles. OK. Maybe there are others. Still, it makes today such a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Their music is timeless<\/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":[5547,4749],"class_list":["post-56551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-popular-culture","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56551","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=56551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56552,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56551\/revisions\/56552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}