{"id":10184,"date":"2015-07-10T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=10184"},"modified":"2015-07-10T10:13:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:13:24","slug":"a-feast-of-beatles-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2015\/07\/a-feast-of-beatles-days.html","title":{"rendered":"A Feast of Beatles Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"TheBeatles\"<\/a>
\nI am sufficiently out of it that I was unaware there are contending Beatle\u2019s Days out there.<\/p>\n

One is today, the 10th of July, marking their return to Liverpool following their wildly successful first tour of the United States. It is observed in, of course, Liverpool, but also in Hamburg, their other \u201chome\u201d city. <\/p>\n

However for reasons I don\u2019t quite follow, the Wikipedia article on this important holiday say mostly Americans prefer to observe the 27th of February as Beatles Day, for something having to do with Spring.<\/p>\n

However, that\u2019s hardly the end of the story. A google search turned up a third date, Global Beatles Day, observed on June 25th. The justification for this day is that it marks the broadcast of the Beatles performing \u201cAll you need is Love\u201d in 1967. Continuing on google, I found then International Beatles Fan Day, which is observed on the 6th of June, and marks when the Beatles met their producer George Martin of EMI studies. Important no doubt.<\/p>\n

I guess if we throw in their various birthdays, we can pretty much celebrate the Beatles around the calendar.<\/p>\n

But, for today, just a little morning song\u2026<\/p>\n