{"id":12,"date":"2005-12-08T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2005-12-08T00:16:51","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T05:16:51","slug":"thursday-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2005\/12\/08\/thursday-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we contemplate the fact that Morning Sedition will soon come to an end, we mark the anniversary of an even sadder event; John Lennon was murdered 25 years ago tonight.  <\/p>\n<p>I find it inconceivable that&#8217;s it&#8217;s been so long.  God, I was young then, and going on my second college.  It was a Monday night, as I recall.  Some of the guys were watching the football game in one of the lounges, but I wasn&#8217;t particularly interested in the teams that night, so I was in my room listening to the radio when they came on and gave us the news.  I walked down the hall to break the news, and just after I did so, Howard Cosell announced to the Monday Night Football world that John Lennon was dead.  He was 40 years old.<\/p>\n<p>It was even sadder, because John had just returned to making music again;  Mark David Chapman has deprived us of 25 years of what I&#8217;m certain would have been great music, humor, and insight.  The world needs you John &#8211; now, more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Blog on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we contemplate the fact that Morning Sedition will soon come to an end, we mark the anniversary of an even sadder event; John Lennon was murdered 25 years ago tonight. I find it inconceivable that&#8217;s it&#8217;s been so long. God, I was young then, and going on my second college. It was a Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}