{"id":887,"date":"2011-01-06T07:33:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T12:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/news\/?p=887"},"modified":"2011-01-06T08:55:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:55:44","slug":"47-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/47-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"47 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Holdhand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-890\" title=\"Holdhand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Holdhand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Holdhand.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Holdhand-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Monday, January 6, 1964 &#8211; 7:45PM. I (Mark) remember it like it was yesterday. I was listening to 77-WABC the main Top 40 radio station in NYC, doing my homework when I first heard <em><strong>I Want To Hold Your Hand<\/strong><\/em>. It immediately grabbed me, so different, so exciting, so new. I wanted to know who I was listening to. When the song was over, Radio Legend Scott Muni announced that it was a group from England called The Beatles. I thought &#8220;what an unusual name! This was a few days before my 16th birthday and all these years later I am still hooked on them. Once a Beatles fan, always a Beatles fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, January 6, 1964 &#8211; 7:45PM. I (Mark) remember it like it was yesterday. I was listening to 77-WABC the main Top 40 radio station in NYC, doing my homework when I first heard I Want To Hold Your Hand. [&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-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}