{"id":648,"date":"2009-06-07T07:48:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T07:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-06-07T07:48:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T07:48:03","slug":"presidential-worldiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/presidential-worldiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential worldiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He was now, if not yet a man, then at least a youth of more than ordinary experience of the world.\u00a0 He had traveled exhaustively in Britain, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, visiting their great cities time and again and actually living in some for long periods.\u00a0 He had plumbed the Catacombs and climbed the Great Pyramids, slept in a monastery and toured a harem.\u00a0 He had hunted jackals on horseback, kissed the Pope&#8217;s hand, stared into a volcano, traced an ancient civilization to its source, and followed the wanderings of Jesus.\u00a0 He had been exposed to much of the world&#8217;s greatest art and architecture, become conversant in two foreign languages, and felt as much at home in Arab bazaars as at a German kaffeeklatsch, or on the shaven lawns of an English estate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ed Morris&#8217; description of Teddy Roosevelt at 15, appropos <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/05\/44-and-26\/\" target=\"_blank\">44 and 26<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nEdmund Morris [2001]: <em>The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. <\/em>New York, USA:\u00a0 The Modern Library.\u00a0 Revised and updated edition.\u00a0 First edition published in 1979.\u00a0 Except is from page 47.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was now, if not yet a man, then at least a youth of more than ordinary experience of the world.\u00a0 He had traveled exhaustively in Britain, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, visiting their great cities time and again and actually living in some for long periods.\u00a0 He had plumbed the Catacombs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-post-industrial-nomads","p1","y2009","m06","d07","h07"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}