{"id":11716,"date":"2015-01-20T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2017-05-13T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T12:20:42","slug":"11-amazing-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11716","title":{"rendered":"11 Amazing Things You Probably Didn\u2019t Know About Benjamin Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z012015benfranklin_11facts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Franklin<\/strong> is one of our most interesting founding fathers.\u00a0 Did you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Franklin was a such a great swimmer that he received a posthumous induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968!\u00a0 He also invented swim fins [worn on the hands].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Franklin began masquerading as women at the age of 16 &#8211; in letters written to his brother James&#8217; newspaper.\u00a0 James was not amused when he found out that Silence Dogood&#8217;s [&#8220;a middle-aged widow with sharp, satirical wit&#8221;] letter were actually written by his kid brother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben Franklin never said he wanted a turkey, and not the bald eagle, on our national seal. Franklin did try to cook a turkey using electric current but ended up shocking himself numb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You&#8217;ll learn more about the <strong>Franklin facts<\/strong> above and a lot more if you click over to <del><em><strong>11 Amazing Things You Probably Didn\u2019t Know About Benjamin Franklin<\/strong><\/em><\/del> presented by <strong>Mental_Floss<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Franklin is one of our most interesting founding fathers.\u00a0 Did you know&#8230; Franklin was a such a great swimmer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18039,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions\/18039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}