{"id":118609,"date":"2016-04-16T06:07:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118609\/on-this-day-in-1967-make-love-not-war\/"},"modified":"2016-04-16T06:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T04:07:20","slug":"on-this-day-in-1967-make-love-not-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/04\/16\/on-this-day-in-1967-make-love-not-war\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in 1967: Make love not war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York, it was estimated that 100,000 to 125,000 people listened to speeches by Martin Luther King Jr., Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock. Prior to the march, nearly 200 draft cards were burned by youths in Central Park. In San Francisco, black nationalists led a march, but most of the 20,000 marchers were white.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yMNX6zyAmGs' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>In the 1960s through to the mid-1970s, New York City, San Francisco and London were the\u00a0hotbeds of countercultural activity.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0counterculture and hippie peace movement\u00a0of the 1960s\u00a0refer to an anti-establishment\u00a0cultural phenomenon that developed in the US and the UK\u00a0and then spread throughout much of the Western world.<\/p>\n<p>As the 1960s progressed, widespread social tensions developed regarding human sexuality, women&#8217;s rights,\u00a0traditional modes of authority, experimentation with psychoactive drugs\u00a0and differing interpretations of the American Dream.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>Flower Power<\/h3>\n<p><em>San Francisco<\/em>\u00a0by Scott McKenzie was one of many songs written to protest against the Vietnam war. Music played a huge role in the counterculture movement and in the lives of the young soldiers in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7I0vkKy504U' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h3>If the doors of perception were cleansed&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Jim Morrison,\u00a0lead singer of The Doors, was the son of a US Navy rear admiral. Morrison senior was the commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident\" target=\"_blank\">The Gulf of Tonkin\u00a0incident<\/a> in August 1964 sparked an escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xuxu0HCr0oM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h3>Eve of Destruction<\/h3>\n<p><em>Eve of Destruction<\/em>\u00a0was written by 19-year-old P.F. Sloan, but was made famous by Barry McGuire. It contains the lyrics \u201cyou\u2019re old enough to kill, but not for voting, you don\u2019t believe in war, but what\u2019s that gun you\u2019re toting\u201d and \u201cyou can bury your dead, but don&#8217;t leave a trace, hate your next door neighbour, but don&#8217;t forget to say grace.\u201d It was the Number 1 song in America in 1965.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ntLsElbW9Xo' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='cec0974cf89949d91612dc583619e606'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive parades to protest against the war in Vietnam were held in New York and San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":118610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10657,10658,10659,10660,10661,10662,10663],"class_list":["post-118609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-anti-establishment","tag-antiwar-protests-1967","tag-counterculture-movement","tag-hippie","tag-make-love-not-war","tag-peace-movement","tag-vietnam-war"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["anti-establishment","antiwar protests 1967","counterculture movement","hippie","make love not war","peace movement","Vietnam War"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}