{"id":385,"date":"2004-04-18T09:01:19","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/04\/lennon_the_brand_skeptical_cov\/"},"modified":"2004-04-18T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T13:01:19","slug":"lennon_the_brand_skeptical_cov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/04\/lennon_the_brand_skeptical_cov\/","title":{"rendered":"LENNON THE BRAND: Skeptical Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.scotsman.com\/2004\/04\/10\/1004onob.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" alt=\"John and Yoko\">Sat 10 Apr 2004<BR><br \/>\nJohn and Yoko. Her supporters are critical of lingering British dislike for the women they think stole their Beatle.<BR><BR><br \/>\nby TIM CORNWELL, ARTS CORRESPONDENT, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/opinion.cfm?id=405802004\" target=\"_blank\">THE SCOTSMAN<\/A><BR><br \/>\nIF HE were alive today, he might well have approved. As Yoko Ono prepares to bring the most complete collection of John Lennon\u2019s artwork to Britain next month, she is in pursuit of a long-held aim to turn the former Beatle into a global brand. <BR><BR><br \/>\nLennon himself once said that one of his more notorious antics, the Bed-In, in which he and his Japanese wife lay in an Amsterdam hotel bed for a week, was an &#8220;advertisement&#8221; for peace. But would Lennon ever have envisaged his name and likeness being attached to a range of baby toys, jewellery and glasses? <BR><BR><br \/>\n(Scroll down for my <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/opinion.cfm?id=405802004\" target=\"_blank\">quotes<\/A>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sat 10 Apr 2004 John and Yoko. Her supporters are critical of lingering British dislike for the women they think stole their Beatle. by TIM CORNWELL, ARTS CORRESPONDENT, THE SCOTSMAN IF HE were alive today, he might well have approved. As Yoko Ono prepares to bring the most complete collection of John Lennon\u2019s artwork to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}