{"id":2913,"date":"2015-01-12T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:54:56","slug":"paris-to-strawberry-fields-to-city-hall-needing-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/paris-to-strawberry-fields-to-city-hall-needing-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris to Strawberry Fields to City Hall: Needing Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"January<\/a><\/p>\n

It was impossible to watch Sunday’s enormous march through traumatized Paris with any detachment; events that touch us all invariably drive us to gather, so we felt it too. \u00a0Stating the obvious, certainly, but, as I grow older and my inventory of remembered public sadness grows — JFK, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Oklahoma City, 9\/11 — it remains remarkable.<\/p>\n

\"charie<\/a><\/p>\n

I am somewhere in this crowd, gathered for a vigil and moment of silence six days after the assassination of John Lennon. \u00a0Imagine all the people, living life in peace\u00a0<\/em>he wrote. \u00a0Grief and anger at his loss drew us then, as, so many years later, grief and anger summoned the people of Paris.<\/p>\n

\"CHARLIE<\/a>I am somewhere in this crowd, too: another Sunday, in 2014, 34 years later. \u00a0We’re in San Francisco, not Paris, but once more have come together, a continent and an ocean away from the millions in France. \u00a0We too mourn, and rage, and join together for comfort — but look. \u00a0Thirty four years later, John Lennon is still present, asking the same questions, demanding, even as we mourn, that we do better.<\/p>\n

\"CHARLIE<\/a>\"charlie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was impossible to watch Sunday’s enormous march through traumatized Paris with any detachment; events that touch us all invariably drive us to gather, so we felt it too. \u00a0Stating the obvious, certainly, but, as I grow older and my inventory of remembered public sadness grows — JFK, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Oklahoma City, … Continue reading Paris to Strawberry Fields to City Hall: Needing Each Other<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,4,27,8,9,98],"tags":[3131,3130,3132,3128,3125,3127,3133,234,2774,3124,220,224,2773,3135,1392,472,3134,3129,3126,1979],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-baby-boom","category-current-affairs","category-music","category-politics","category-religion","tag-jesuisahmed","tag-jesuischarlie","tag-jesuisjuif","tag-central-park","tag-charlie-hebdo","tag-demonstration","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom","tag-imagine","tag-je-suis-charlie","tag-jewish","tag-jews","tag-john-lennon","tag-kosher-grocery-store","tag-march","tag-paris","tag-political-cartoons","tag-strawberry-fields","tag-terror","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-KZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}