{"id":7820,"date":"2014-07-22T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T13:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/the-summer-of-69\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T13:31:37","slug":"the-summer-of-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/the-summer-of-69\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer of ’69"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot happened that fabulous and far-off summer of '69, now 45 years past.  I won't bore you with any autobiographical tidbits, and of course some of you remember the moon landing; but that was also the summer when Ted Kennedy's car killed Mary Jo Kopechne. <\/span><\/p>\n

His car killed more people than any of my guns.<\/span><\/p>\n

I now hand off to Malcolm Pollack<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A lot happened that fabulous and far-off summer of '69, now 45 years past.  I won't bore you with any autobiographical tidbits, and of course some of you remember the moon landing; but that was also the summer when Ted Kennedy's car killed Mary Jo Kopechne.  His car killed more people than any of my … Continue reading “The Summer of ’69”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sixties","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}