{"id":648351,"date":"2013-03-22T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=222062"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:26:10","slug":"yoko-ono-tweets-pic-of-john-lennons-bloody-glasses-to-bring-attention-to-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648351","title":{"rendered":"Yoko Ono Tweets Pic of John Lennon\u2019s Bloody Glasses to Bring Attention to Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case a chilling picture is worth at least 14,000 retweets.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to bring attention to gun violence in the U.S., Yoko Ono tweeted a photo of John Lennon&#8217;s bloody glasses. Lennon, as you know, was shot and killed on December 8th, 1980 outside the Dakota apartment building by Mark David Chapman. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. After 33 years our son Sean and I still miss him. Yoko Ono Lennon,&#8221; read the tweet. <\/p>\n<p>So far, tweet has received over 14,800 retweets and over 4,000 favorites. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. After 33 years our son Sean and I still miss him. Yoko Ono Lennon <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/PYigb2uJKT\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/yokoono\/status\/314339690050367488\/photo\/1\">twitter.com\/yokoono\/status\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yoko Ono (@yokoono) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yokoono\/status\/314339690050367488\">March 20, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The tweet was even retweeted by President Obama&#8217;s Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/article_pics\/boyoko1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"520\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whatever your feelings are about the current battle between gun control activists, 2nd amendment activists, and everyone in between, it&#8217;s hard to argue against this image as a particularly powerful one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=w9x2OHzYgV0:SyC85o66Gq8:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/w9x2OHzYgV0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case a chilling picture is worth at least 14,000 retweets. In an effort to bring attention to gun violence in the U.S., Yoko Ono tweeted a photo of John Lennon&#8217;s bloody glasses. Lennon, as you know, was shot and killed on December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}