{"id":54344,"date":"2024-11-18T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=54344"},"modified":"2024-10-29T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T14:29:27","slug":"a-full-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/a-full-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Full Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Firstly, this isn’t a new book at DPL.\u00a0 President Carter penned this biography<\/a> ten years ago at the whippersnapper age of 90.\u00a0 \u00a0 There are a host of fascinating tidbits here about Smiling Jimmy.\u00a0 For example, you wouldn’t think the first centenarian US president would be a guy who produced radioactive urine for six months after saving a damaged Canadian nuclear reactor.\u00a0 As he tells it, science’s burgeoning cognizance of radiation in 1952 erroneously permitted human exposure levels 1000 times our modern understanding.\u00a0 It worked out for Bruce Banner, right?<\/p>\n

Carter’s roots were humble.\u00a0 In fact, he was the first president to reside in public housing, undoubtedly igniting his passion for Habitat for Humanity.\u00a0 Little Jimmy was a racial minority among his schoolmates, solidifying his stance as supporter of civil rights in the turbulent 60’s.\u00a0 Where he was from, that platform cost him a few victories in his nascent political career.<\/p>\n

Governor.\u00a0 Presidency.\u00a0 Ayatollah. Hostage Crisis. Energy Crisis. Reagan.\u00a0 \u00a0And then, it was right back to Plains, GA, the peanut farm, and the same home he’s owned for sixty years.\u00a0 Did he ever stop teaching Sunday school?\u00a0 He missed a few catechisms 1976-1980, yeah.<\/p>\n

Check out the story of the man who is more famous for what he did AFTER being POTUS while there isn’t a holds list.\u00a0 If heaven ever claims the objectively kindest human to occupy the oval office, there might be demand for this story.\u00a0 Of course, we’ve been saying that a while.\u00a0 Jimmy may rival “Silent Cal” Coolidge for the least sensational commander-in-chief, but his century on Earth is undeniably grounded in public service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Firstly, this isn’t a new book at DPL.\u00a0 President Carter penned this biography ten years ago at the whippersnapper age of 90.\u00a0 \u00a0 There are a host of fascinating tidbits here about Smiling Jimmy.\u00a0 For example, you wouldn’t think the first centenarian US president would be a guy who produced[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[9289,3416,676],"class_list":["post-54344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-a-full-life","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-nonfiction","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-e8w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54344\/revisions\/54420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}