{"id":990,"date":"2021-07-07T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:22:15","slug":"jimmy-and-rosaylnn-carter-75th-anniversary-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, 75th anniversary today."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdede0bfa200c-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12720\" title=\"Carter 75\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e202788035e20f200d-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12719\" title=\"Carter wedding\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Carter was a very unlucky President. But he was the best ex-President I can remember. Good for them! The article is from the Atlantic Journal &#8211; Constitution and very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/jimmy-and-rosalynn-carter-talk-about-what-75-years-of-love-accomplishes\/CG6MQG3NFRCO3EZQVUH2GTUH74\/\">Jimmy Carter won the presidency and a Nobel Peace Prize. But the best thing ever to happen to him, he says, occurred on July 7, 1946, when he exchanged wedding vows with Rosalynn Smith at a tiny Methodist church in Plains.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"c-section b-sectionHome-padding\nb-margin-bottom-d40-m20\n\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-contentElements\">\n<p class=\"story-text b-margin-bottom-d40-m20\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">He was a 21-year-old U.S. Naval Academy graduate with a heap of ambition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"c-section b-sectionHome-padding\nb-margin-bottom-d40-m20\n\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-contentElements\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p class=\"story-text b-margin-bottom-d40-m20\">She was the brilliant 18-year-old salutatorian of Plains High School who had fallen in love with a photograph of the future president that she had seen hanging on the bedroom wall of her friend Ruth, Carter\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Carter was a very unlucky President. But he was the best ex-President I can remember. Good for them! The article is from the Atlantic Journal &#8211; Constitution and very good. Jimmy Carter won the presidency and a Nobel Peace Prize. But the best thing ever to happen to him, he says, occurred on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12721,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/12721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}