{"id":23148,"date":"2023-09-23T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23148"},"modified":"2023-10-24T06:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T11:01:43","slug":"theodore-roosevelt-island-national-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23148","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23151\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230923_131341.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23151\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230923_131341-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Theodore Roosevelt Statue, by Paul Manship\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230923_131341-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230923_131341-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230923_131341-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230923_131341-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230923_131341.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theodore Roosevelt Statue, by Paul Manship<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Early this afternoon we took Jim to the airport. We had enjoyed his visit and I know his mom enjoyed seeing him. It was a wet day but we decided to stop at Teddy Roosevelt Island (or, more properly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/presidents\/t_roosevelt_island.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial<\/a>). This island was bought by the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association in 1931 and owned by the federal government since 1932.<\/p>\n<p>When I was young, we used to put the jon boat into the river near here and my earliest memories of the island include seeing the large, wooden crate with Roosevelt&#8217;s hand emerging from the top. The statue, by American sculptor Paul Manship (December 24, 1885 \u2013 January 28, 1966), was officially dedicated (out of the crate, in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>We really enjoyed our walk, although the rain turned quit heavy about half way through it and we were pretty well soaked by the time we got back to the car. I especially like the marsh at the southern end of the island, with its baldcypress trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this afternoon we took Jim to the airport. We had enjoyed his visit and I know his mom enjoyed seeing him. It was a wet day but we decided to stop at Teddy Roosevelt Island (or, more properly, Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial). This island was bought by the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23148\">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":[6],"tags":[3452,2216,2217,3451,3450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23148"}],"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=23148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23155,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23148\/revisions\/23155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}