{"id":2867,"date":"2014-03-26T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2014-03-26T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:01:37","slug":"fest-memories-the-25th-anniversary-fest-kicked-off-15-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/fest-memories-the-25th-anniversary-fest-kicked-off-15-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fest Memories: The 25th Anniversary Fest Kicked Off 15 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago today, at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands in Secaucus, the 25th anniversary Fest kicked off.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDuring the celebration of The Beatles, time was also taken out to recognize the 25 year anniversary of when Fest founder Mark Lapidos met John Lennon &#8211; setting in motion the first ever Fest in 1974.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAt the &#8217;99 Fest, guests included Gordon Waller, Laurence Juber, The Quarrymen, Doris Troy, Louise Harrison, Al Brodax, and Tony Barrow.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs a great surprise on Friday night, legendary concert promoter Sid Bernstein stopped by.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBelow, Mark Lapidos &#8211; wearing the same tuxedo he wore during the first Fest in 1974, cuts the 25th anniversary cake.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/530_cakenj99.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2869\" title=\"530_cakenj99\" src=\"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/530_cakenj99-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/530_cakenj99-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/530_cakenj99-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/530_cakenj99.jpg 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago today, at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands in Secaucus, the 25th anniversary Fest kicked off. &nbsp; During the celebration of The Beatles, time was also taken out to recognize the 25 year anniversary of when Fest founder Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fest-memories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}