{"id":29838,"date":"2024-07-02T18:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-2-2001-liverpool-renames-speke-airport-to-honor-john-lennon\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:02:50","slug":"on-this-day-july-2-2001-liverpool-renames-speke-airport-to-honor-john-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-2-2001-liverpool-renames-speke-airport-to-honor-john-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 2, 2001: Liverpool renames Speke Airport to honor John Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-02\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, July 2, 2001 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Twenty-one years after his death, Liverpool renamed Speke Airport after the late <strong>Beatle<\/strong> <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>, who was born and raised in the U.K. city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Now known as Liverpool John Lennon Airport,\u00a0the international airport was the first in the U.K. to be named after an individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The airport features a 7-foot-tall bronze statue of the rock legend, with the \u201cImagine\u201d lyric \u201cabove us, only sky\u201d painted on the airport\u2019s roof. It also features a &#8220;Yellow Submarine&#8221; work of art, and an exhibit of photos of The Beatles in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, July 2, 2001 &#8230; Twenty-one years after his death, Liverpool renamed Speke Airport after the late Beatle John Lennon, who was born and raised in the U.K. city. Now known as Liverpool John Lennon Airport,\u00a0the international airport was the first in the U.K. to be named after<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-2-2001-liverpool-renames-speke-airport-to-honor-john-lennon\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}