{"id":182,"date":"2006-12-08T20:21:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T02:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/08\/on-a-cold-december-evening\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T02:22:33","slug":"on-a-cold-december-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"On A Cold December Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was seventh-hour &#8220;Living Sports&#8221; class, the end of a long winter day in the middle of my senior year of high school.  We were doing ice skating.  Lesa MacEwan was showing me how to skate&#8230;well, I already knew how, more or less, but if you had a chance to have Lesa MacEwan tow you around the ice  by the hand, ethics came in a distant second.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>The radio was playing on the house speakers, tuned to KFYR in Bismark (at the time a Top40 AM station &#8211; a virtually forgotten specimen these days).  &#8220;Hungry Heart&#8221; by Springsteen played.<\/p>\n<p>And ended.<\/p>\n<p>And the jock came on after the song and said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&#038;id=7105\">John Lennon had been shot and killed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never been much of a Lennon fan.  And I never became one; genius doesn&#8217;t necessarily imply likeability.  And I always found <em>Double Fantasy  <\/em>a completely awful album; Lennon&#8217;s death didn&#8217;t make it any better.<\/p>\n<p>But I could see why, for so many people not much older than I, December 8 1980 was the day the music died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was seventh-hour &#8220;Living Sports&#8221; class, the end of a long winter day in the middle of my senior year of high school. We were doing ice skating. Lesa MacEwan was showing me how to skate&#8230;well, I already knew how, more or less, but if you had a chance to have Lesa MacEwan tow you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}