{"id":3951,"date":"2009-12-08T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:44:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:44:52","slug":"remembering-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3951","title":{"rendered":"Remembering John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lennon\">John Lennon<\/a> was shot to death on December 8, 1980. I always think of Lennon at this time of year, not because this is when he died, but because &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.countrygoldusa.com\/happy_christmas.asp\">Happy Xmas (War Is Over)<\/a>&#8221; is one of my favorite songs, and it&#8217;ll be on the radio a lot now. You also can search on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a> to hear many, many renditions of it, including videos with Lennon&#8217;s recording.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/lennon.jpg\" alt=\"Come Together cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Andersen Library has materials on John Lennon, if you&#8217;re interested. Search the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic\">HALCat catalog<\/a> to find titles such as <em>&#8220;I read the news today&#8221;: The social drama of John Lennon&#8217;s death<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, ML420.L38 F64 1994) and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Dj5uY-yAy4QC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Come together: John Lennon in his time<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, ML420 .L38 W5 1991). A search of the UW System Libraries finds a recording of the Happy Xmas number on the <em>Shaved Fish<\/em> album, available to UWW students and staff through the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/selectDatabase\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service. <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/indexes\/alpha.html\">Article databases<\/a> can be searched to find articles such as the front-page <em>New York Time<\/em>s article <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/pqdweb?did=111322942&amp;sid=2&amp;Fmt=10&amp;clientId=3852&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=HNP\">&#8220;John Lennon of Beatles is killed; suspect held in shooting at Dakota&#8221;<\/a> (Dec. 9, 1980).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lennon was shot to death on December 8, 1980. I always think of Lennon at this time of year, not because this is when he died, but because &#8220;Happy Xmas (War Is Over)&#8221; is one of my favorite songs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3951\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[875,141,2464,1231,178,231,2463,132,334,267,219],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-anniversaries","tag-articles","tag-assassination","tag-beatles","tag-books","tag-history","tag-lennon","tag-music","tag-newspapers","tag-videos","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}