{"id":11943,"date":"2015-02-17T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2015-02-15T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T20:44:40","slug":"15-quirks-of-u-s-presidents-you-didnt-learn-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11943","title":{"rendered":"15 Quirks of U.S. Presidents You Didn\u2019t Learn in School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z021715president_quirks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mental Floss<\/strong> presents: <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/61593\/15-quirks-us-presidents-you-didnt-learn-school\" target=\"_blank\">15 Quirks of U.S. Presidents You Didn\u2019t Learn in School<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From their list here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. CHESTER A. ARTHUR\u2019S RUMMAGE SALE<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You couldn\u2019t call Chester A. Arthur the sentimental type. The 21st president was happy to hand over wagonloads of White House furniture\u2014the former belongings of his long line of esteemed predecessors dating all the way back to John Adams\u2019s term\u2014to the highest bidder. Rumor has it he only snagged $8,000 for the priceless haul.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">6. MARTIN VAN BUREN\u2019S LOADED ARGUMENTS<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seemingly of Monroe\u2019s school of thought, Martin Van Buren was known to bring a pair of loaded pistols to Senatorial assemblies, just in case an argument became too heated.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">7. BENJAMIN HARRISON\u2019S LIGHT TRAUMA<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benjamin Harrison, whose presidency was the first to oversee a White House wired with electricity, might be commended for embracing scientific progress \u2026 if it weren\u2019t for the desperate fear of light switches that kept him from ever actually utilizing this new technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Floss presents: 15 Quirks of U.S. Presidents You Didn\u2019t Learn in School. From their list here are three of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11943","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\/11943","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=11943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11945,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions\/11945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}