{"id":22034,"date":"2014-10-09T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22034"},"modified":"2014-10-09T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:36:51","slug":"the-limits-of-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-limits-of-fandom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my close, personal Facebook friends posted this clip on his feed today. I watch this every other year or so, which indicates\u00a0how often I watch Beatles- and Lennon-related documentaries, not just this clip in particular. But I&#8217;d be lying if I said I wasn&#8217;t particularly attracted to the cult-worshiping aspects of this scene:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0dk_PQt-bdo\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #141823;\">This\u00a0footage never fails to give me chills &#8211; on many levels. What&#8217;s really got me going now is the link I followed from the YouTube posting to a\u00a0Dick Cavett appearance of, possibly, the same guy. If that&#8217;s in fact the same guy you&#8217;ve got to wonder what was going through his mind when Mark David Chapman completed his twisted act of fandom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aYg-UjN88Cc\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-limits-of-fandom\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-limits-of-fandom\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my close, personal Facebook friends posted this clip on his feed today. I watch this every other year or so, which indicates\u00a0how often I watch Beatles- and Lennon-related documentaries, not just this clip in particular. But I&#8217;d be lying if I said I wasn&#8217;t particularly attracted to the cult-worshiping aspects of this scene: <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-limits-of-fandom\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[27,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}