On July 4, 1826, John Adams, the 2nd president of the United States, lay dying.\u00a0 He commented to one of the people in the room that Jefferson still lives.\u00a0 He didn’t know that Thomas Jefferson, his friend and political rival and the 3rd president, had just died.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was the July 4, 1826 of modern pop culture for people who grew up in the ’70s and ’80s.\u00a0 Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died on the same day.<\/p>\n
MJ, I will think of you this weekend when Raiford plays “I Want You Back” and “ABC” and “Billie Jean” and “Pretty Young Thing,” hopefully as I dance with a tube top hottie.<\/p>\n
Back at lunchtime with the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On July 4, 1826, John Adams, the 2nd president of the United States, lay dying.\u00a0 He commented to one of the people in the room that Jefferson still lives.\u00a0 He didn’t know that Thomas Jefferson, his friend and political rival and the 3rd president, had just died. Yesterday was the July 4, 1826 of modern … Continue reading “Yesterday was the July 4, 1826 of modern pop culture”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}