{"id":9392,"date":"2006-07-17T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T16:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/17\/so-many-anniversaries-so-little-time.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:04:50","slug":"so_many_anniver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/so_many_anniver.html","title":{"rendered":"So many anniversaries, so little time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things that happened on 17 July<\/a> in years past.  Makes you wonder which had the biggest impact on our present time:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \nThe cession of Florida from Spain to the US (1821)<\/li>\n
  2. \nThe end of the Spanish-American War (1898)<\/li>\n
  3. \nThe opening of the Potsdam Conference (1945)<\/li>\n
  4. \nThe opening of Disneyland (1955)<\/li>\n
  5. \nThe first Apollo-Soyuz link-up (1975)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The most interesting anniversary?  The date in 1917 when the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha renamed itself, amidst anti-German war sentiment, to the House of Windsor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Things that happened on 17 July in years past.  Makes you wonder which had the biggest impact on our present time: The cession of Florida from Spain to the US (1821)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,108,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-history","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12561,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/the_bush_mans_burden.html","url_meta":{"origin":9392,"position":0},"title":"The Bush Man’s Burden","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Mar-08 9:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"No wonder Bush thinks the idea of going off to serve in the army in Afghanistan sounds romantic and exciting. 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