{"id":3971,"date":"2008-10-13T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2008-10-13T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:06:25","slug":"stuck-in-the-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in the 60s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as if the last four decades never happened. A reader sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easternecho.com\/content\/yoko-ono-writes-veterans-10000-check-0\" target=\"_blank\">this article about<\/a> the woman who broke up the Beatles giving money to the veterans that broke up common sense;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Bob Krzewinski, secretary of the local chapter of Veterans for Peace, called Yoko Ono\u2019s agent to seek approval for a John Lennon tribute concert, he received the thumbs up and thought that was that.<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks later Krzewinski received a nondescript envelope in the mail, in it a check for $10,000, signed by Ono.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my God, is this real?\u201d he remembers saying after discovering the check. \u201cIt\u2019s just fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The donated money will help fund the Peace scholarship, which is available to students studying conflict resolution or who are veterans, Krzewinski said. VFP also accepted donations during Friday\u2019s concert at the Corner Brewery, the date after Lennon\u2019s birthday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all know how much we need more money to send idiots to college so they can have useless majors and immediately join the ranks of the unemployed upon graduation. Not to worry, though, the old liars and players from the VFP probably squandered the money on slick new scrunchies for their ponytails anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as if the last four decades never happened. A reader sent this article about the &hellip; <a title=\"Stuck in the 60s\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3971\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stuck in the 60s<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}