{"id":9133,"date":"2019-08-16T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:31:40","slug":"newspress-now-50-years-on-a-woodstock-experience-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/16\/newspress-now-50-years-on-a-woodstock-experience-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsPress NOW: 50 years on, a Woodstock experience recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-c8d30490-9925-11e1-9e8e-001a4bcf6878-asset-3885fa52-bea5-11e9-9dec-5f20f4a50197\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover616567\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/b\/c9\/bc9ee29e-8a0b-5b56-a4b6-79db9a344add\/5d54107f601d4.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C675\" alt=\"Dr. Daniel Trifan, professor emeritus of history\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/>By Ken Newton,\u00a0 News-Press NOW|<\/span>Aug 15, 2019<\/p>\n<p>For a 17-year-old devoted to music, a week or two from heading to college, the allure proved too great to ignore. Less than 100 miles from his doorstep, the royalty of rock would convene.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Ditching his summer job early, the teenager answered this call, a decision about which he remains grateful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cI had no idea that this was going to turn into some kind of cultural watershed moment,\u201d Dr. Daniel Trifan [professor emeritus of history] says now. \u201cAll we knew is this was going to be the rock concert to top everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>That was Woodstock, billed as \u201cthree days of peace and music.\u201d It began 50 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/life_story\/years-on-a-woodstock-experience-recalled\/article_3885fa52-bea5-11e9-9dec-5f20f4a50197.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Newton,\u00a0 News-Press NOW|Aug 15, 2019 For a 17-year-old devoted to music, a week or two from heading to college, the allure proved too great to ignore. Less than 100 miles from his doorstep, the royalty of rock would convene. Ditching his summer job early, the teenager answered this call, a decision about which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9134,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions\/9134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}