{"id":13738,"date":"2015-11-13T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T15:51:38","slug":"10-things-you-may-not-know-about-teddy-roosevelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13738","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You May Not Know About Teddy Roosevelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z111315teddyroosevelt_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Christopher Klein\u00a0<\/b>and History.com<b>\u00a0<\/b>present <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-teddy-roosevelt?cmpid=Social_TWITTER_HISTORY_20151027_263962589&amp;linkId=18286032\" target=\"_blank\">10 Things You May Not Know About Teddy Roosevelt<\/a>.<\/b>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my <span style=\"color: #000000;\">favorites<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">His mother and his first wife died on the same day.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Valentine\u2019s Day in 1884, Roosevelt\u2019s mother passed away from typhoid fever. One floor above in the same house, his first wife, Alice, died less than 12 hours later from Bright\u2019s disease and complications from giving birth to the couple\u2019s first child just two days before. \u201cThe light has gone out of my life,\u201d Roosevelt wrote in his diary that night.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">He won the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man famed for his exploits at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War and \u201cBig Stick\u201d diplomacy captured the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt was the first American to capture the award, and he used the prize money to fund a trust to promote industrial peace.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A boxing accident left him virtually blind in one eye.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roosevelt boxed for Harvard University\u2019s intramural lightweight championship and continued to spar recreationally during his political career. During his days in the White House, he regularly put up his dukes against former professional boxers and other sparring partners until a punch from a young artillery officer smashed a blood vessel and left him nearly blind in his left eye.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Klein\u00a0and History.com\u00a0present 10 Things You May Not Know About Teddy Roosevelt.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230; His mother and<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13738","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\/13738","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=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13740,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions\/13740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}