{"id":256,"date":"2005-08-03T12:18:56","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2019-01-09T23:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T23:41:33","slug":"the-birth-of-jessie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/the-birth-of-jessie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Jessie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. It is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/archives\/birthofjessie.html\">Jessie&#8217;s<\/a> birthday and in honor of this auspicious occasion, I have compiled a number of stats about today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Events:<\/strong><br \/>\n1492 &#8211; The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.<br \/>\n1492 &#8211; Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain (with a few Jews on board no less &#8211; in fact, a little known fact is that Luis de Torres, one of the five Jews onboard, was the first man ashore)<br \/>\n1946 &#8211; National Basketball Association was founded in the US.<br \/>\n1983 &#8211; New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally killed a seagull during a baseball game and was charged by police for his &#8220;act of cruelty to animals&#8221;. His manager Billy Martin quipped, &#8220;It&#8217;s the first time he&#8217;s hit the cutoff man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Birthdays:<\/strong><br \/>\n1811 &#8211; Elisha Graves Otis, elevator inventor<br \/>\n1924 &#8211; Leon Uris, American novelist (he wrote <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Exodus<\/span> among others)<br \/>\n1926 &#8211; Tony Bennett, singer<br \/>\n1941 &#8211; Martha Stewart, home economist<\/p>\n<p>Stats courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. It is also Jessie&#8217;s birthday and in honor of this auspicious occasion, I have compiled a number of stats about today: Notable Events: 1492 &#8211; The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-birthdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}