{"id":132,"date":"2011-06-02T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:35:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:35:01","slug":"on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Weissmuller\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Weissmuller<\/a> was born. (He was <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/9\/97\/John_Weissmuller%27s_MGM_Tarzan_Yell.ogg\" target=\"_blank\">Tarzan<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>So were Dana Carvey, Stacy Keach, Jerry Mathers, Sally Kellerman &amp; the Marquis de Sade. (Well, <b><i>everybody<\/i><\/b> has a birthday, after all.)<\/li>\n<li>Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.<\/li>\n<li>Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168.<\/li>\n<li>Lou Gehrig died. So did Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes in <i>Gone With the Wind<\/i>).<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989\" target=\"_blank\">Tiananmen Square<\/a> protest happened. (I&#8217;ve been to Tiananmen Square. It&#8217;s <i>huge<\/i>, the largest city square in the world\u2014444,000 square meters. And there&#8217;s that <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bb\/Commuting_to_Work.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">big honkin&#8217; portrait of Mao<\/a> at the gate to the Forbidden City.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My admirable father-in-law, Joe, was born on June 1st, which means his birthday was yesterday. Which means we really should have called him last night. Oops. And my ex-step-niece, the also admirable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1227134112\" target=\"_blank\">Rebekah<\/a>, has a birthday <i>tomorrow<\/i>. So, really, I&#8217;m not sure why I even brought it up <i>today<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The month is bringing some changes for me, personally, though. I&#8217;m trying out a different approach. More about that later. (Yeah, I know, I keep saying that. But I&#8217;m in SUP [Specific Use Permit] hell right now, and I have to go stand in front of a few desks today to get applications, forms, letters and other paperwork done so it can go before the Planning &amp; Zoning Board at their next meeting. <b><i>Yawn?<\/i><\/b> You have no idea.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll get better. Promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Weissmuller was born. (He was Tarzan.) So were Dana Carvey, Stacy Keach, Jerry Mathers, Sally Kellerman &amp; the Marquis de Sade. (Well, everybody has a birthday, after all.) Queen Elizabeth II was crowned. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168. Lou Gehrig died. So did Leslie Howard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}