{"id":3977,"date":"2012-11-22T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2013-11-22T00:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:50:15","slug":"remembering-jfk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/remembering-jfk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering JFK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button78\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/remembering-jfk-2\/\" data-text=\"Remembering JFK - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/John_F._Kennedy_White_House_photo_portrait_looking_up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4142\" alt=\"WH\/HO Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/John_F._Kennedy_White_House_photo_portrait_looking_up-235x300.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/John_F._Kennedy_White_House_photo_portrait_looking_up-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/John_F._Kennedy_White_House_photo_portrait_looking_up.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why?A Brit like me? And he was such a flawed man and politician. Just because he was assassinated?<\/p>\n<p>I lived through it. It is probably the event along with the first Moon landing, which most informed my young life.<\/p>\n<p>I have been fascinated by his story and his death for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Even a young kid growing up in swinging London was impressed by JFK&#8217;s glamour, charisma and good looks and the horror of his killing. My first awakening to the evil in the world when the dream, however illusory, was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>So I remember him on this day every year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button78\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/remembering-jfk-2\/\" data-text=\"Remembering JFK - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p>Why?A Brit like me? And he was such a flawed man and politician. Just because he was assassinated? I lived through it. It is probably the event along with the first Moon landing, which most informed my young life. I have been fascinated by his story and his death for more than 40 years. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1085],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jfk","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}