{"id":18375,"date":"2020-01-20T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18375"},"modified":"2020-01-31T19:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:12:29","slug":"theodore-roosevelt-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18375","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Roosevelt Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18377\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200120_173544b.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18377\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200120_173544b-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Bob, Dorothy, Maureen, Cathy, and Henry at Teddy Roosevelt Monument\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200120_173544b-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200120_173544b-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200120_173544b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200120_173544b-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200120_173544b.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob, Dorothy, Maureen, Cathy, and Henry at Teddy Roosevelt Monument<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I have not had Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a holiday for many years. The company where we work has decided that starting this year, we will be honoring the day and so, for the first time in many years, we were off work for that today. We wanted to do something outdoors and talked through a lot of options. Then Dorothy suggested we go to &#x201c;the island with the box with the hand sticking out of the top.&#x201d; When I was young, we went to this island in our little jon boat (there was no bridge or causeway in the mid 1960s). In the center of the island was a huge wooden box with a brass hand sticking out of the top of it. We know the proper name for the island, of course, but we still refer to it, and now Dorothy does, too, in this somewhat more colorful manner. Our friends Bob and Maureen joined us for the outing and we had a lovely time on a lovely day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I have not had Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a holiday for many years. The company where we work has decided that starting this year, we will be honoring the day and so, for the first time in many years, we were off work for that today. We wanted to do something &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[130,1593,2218,2195,300,2216,2217,2215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18378,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions\/18378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}