{"id":98,"date":"2007-09-03T07:32:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/happy-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T07:32:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T13:32:54","slug":"happy-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/happy-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about death anniversaries that makes people want to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; them? Every August at Graceland Elvis fans flock there on the day of his death. And with the 10th anniversary of Princess Dianna&#8217;s death a few days ago, the media went crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News showed some kind of memorial service for Dianna during their morning show. MSNBC actually reran the whole funeral.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, every December 8th John Lennon fans gather in New York and burn candles for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it.\u00a0 I mean, I guess I do in a way, but why not do all this stuff on their birthday instead? Why highlight the saddest day of their heroes&#8217; life, that is, the day of their death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about death anniversaries that makes people want to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; them? Every August at Graceland Elvis fans flock there on the day of his death. And with the 10th anniversary of Princess Dianna&#8217;s death a few days ago, the media went crazy. Fox News showed some kind of memorial service for Dianna during &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/happy-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Anniversary!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}