{"id":7486,"date":"2014-12-15T14:51:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2014-12-15T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T14:51:01","slug":"forgiveness-for-lennons-killer-oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7486","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness for Lennon's killer? Oh, boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mark David Chapman wants what<\/em> from Yoko Ono?<\/p>\n

He wants the wife of the man he murdered 34 years ago to forgive him?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/music\/news\/john-lennons-killer-wants-forgiveness-from-yoko-ono\/ar-BBgPa1j<\/p>\n

This one boggles my mind.<\/p>\n

Chapman received a 20-years-to-life prison sentence for shooting music legend John Lennon in the back. He’s been denied parole several times in the years since then. John’s widow has argued with the New York state parole board against setting her husband’s killer free.<\/p>\n

Now the man who put several generations of music lovers — not to mention those of us who loved The Beatles — into perpetual mourning wants Yoko Ono’s forgiveness.<\/p>\n

How would I feel if such a tragedy had occurred in my life? Would I be able to forgive the individual who did such a terrible deed to someone I love?<\/p>\n

I do not believe I could.<\/p>\n

Then again, it is impossible to thrust oneself into another’s conscience when pondering such a request.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I won’t offer any advice to Yoko Ono on how she should respond to this request from the man who murdered her husband.<\/p>\n

But if it were me …<\/p>\n

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Mark David Chapman wants what from Yoko Ono? He wants the wife of the man he murdered 34 years ago to forgive him? http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/music\/news\/john-lennons-killer-wants-forgiveness-from-yoko-ono\/ar-BBgPa1j This one boggles my mind. Chapman received a 20-years-to-life prison sentence for shooting music legend John Lennon in the back. He’s been denied parole several times in the years since then. … Continue reading Forgiveness for Lennon's killer? Oh, boy<\/span> →<\/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":[13],"tags":[2543,2544,2909,3283,4749,5326],"class_list":["post-7486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-john-lennon","tag-john-lennons-murder","tag-mark-david-chapman","tag-new-york-parole-board","tag-the-beatles","tag-yoko-ono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486","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=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}