{"id":1826,"date":"2014-01-06T06:25:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2014-01-06T06:25:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:25:06","slug":"mark-hears-i-want-to-hold-your-hand-1st-time-1664","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/mark-hears-i-want-to-hold-your-hand-1st-time-1664\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark hears I Want To Hold Your Hand &#8211; 1st Time 1\/6\/64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PS_IWantToHoldYourHandEast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1827\" title=\"PS_IWantToHoldYourHandEast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PS_IWantToHoldYourHandEast-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PS_IWantToHoldYourHandEast-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PS_IWantToHoldYourHandEast-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PS_IWantToHoldYourHandEast.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was fifty years ago today, January 6, 1964 that I first heard <em><strong>I Want To Hold Your Hand<\/strong><\/em>. It was a moment that forever changed my life and I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the first day back from the two week Christmas\/New Year&#8217;s vacation where i had no access to radio. I was listening to WABC on the Scott Muni Show. I was doing my homework and the song came on the radio. I got so excited. I never heard ANYTHING that sounded like that before. I wanted to know who it was. I was hooked before the song was over. Scottso came on and said that it was by a group from England called The Beatles. My first thought was &#8216;What a strange name!&#8217; The very next day, Tuesday, was new survey day and I came home from school and it was #1. It was still #1 when they appeared on the <em>Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> almost five weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lapidos, January 6, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was fifty years ago today, January 6, 1964 that I first heard I Want To Hold Your Hand. It was a moment that forever changed my life and I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}