{"id":4420,"date":"2010-03-30T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2010-03-30T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:12:00","slug":"on-this-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/on-this-day-9\/","title":{"rendered":"ON THIS DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>1533 &#8211; Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon (five wives would follow \u2026 AND five mother-in-laws. Git!<\/li>\n<li>1858 &#8211; Hyman L. Lipman patented the pencil.<\/li>\n<li>1867 &#8211; The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.<\/li>\n<li>1981 &#8211; U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington DC by John W. Hinckley Jr.<\/li>\n<li>1986 \u2013 Jimmy \u2018You Dirty Rat\u2019 Cagney shuffled off this mortal coil.<\/li>\n<li>1987 &#8211; Vincent Van Gogh&#8217;s \u2018Sunflowers\u2019 was bought for $39.85 million. It was also Vinnie\u2019s birthday (1853)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><i>Birthdays<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Big day for musos and actors: Frankie \u2018Rawhide\u2019 Laine (1913), John \u2018Gomez Addams\u2019 Astin (1930), Warren Beatty (1937), Eric Clapton (1945), MC \u2018Can\u2019t Touch This\u2019 Hammer (1962), Celine Dion (1968) and, of course, Australia\u2019s favourite son, Rolf Harris (1930).<\/p>\n<p>This is also Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago (heh?) and National Doctors\u2019 Day in the US \u2026 so chances are you won\u2019t be able to get a tee time on any golf course east of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p><span><i>Quotes<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.\u201d<br \/>&#8211; Warren Beatty<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHoney I forgot to duck.\u201d<br \/>&#8211; Ronald Reagan to wife Nancy after being shot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1533 &#8211; Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon (five wives would follow \u2026 AND five mother-in-laws. Git! 1858 &#8211; Hyman L. Lipman patented the pencil. 1867 &#8211; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}