{"id":919,"date":"2009-08-31T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/08\/31\/jim-clark-51-a-part-of-trumans-excellent-adventure\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T09:00:04","slug":"jim-clark-51-a-part-of-trumans-excellent-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/08\/31\/jim-clark-51-a-part-of-trumans-excellent-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Clark &#039;51 &#8211; A Part of Truman&#039;s Excellent Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"243\" height=\"275\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/truman.jpg\" \/>Matthew Algeo has a book out called: <em>Harry Truman&#8217;s Excellent Adventure<\/em>. &nbsp;The book chronicles Harry and Bess Truman&#8217;s exploits on a post&#8211;presidency road trip from Missouri to Broadway and back, plus a few detours.<\/p>\n<p>In July, 1953, the Trumans stopped in Indianapolis and stayed at the home of the McKinney family who lived on North Meridian. &nbsp;In the process of a reception that evening for the Trumans, the McKinney&#8217;s daughter Claire met the mayor of Indianapolis, Alex Clark. &nbsp;Later that evening, Claire went out with some friends and ran into Mayor Clark. &nbsp;Alex introduced Claire to his brother, <strong>Jim Clark &#8217;51<\/strong>. &nbsp;It wasn&#8217;t quite love at first sight&#8230;but close. &nbsp;Jim and Claire are still together today &#8211; living in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Harry and Bess Truman were the reason the couple met&#8230;and have lived happily ever after. &nbsp;And &quot;that&#8217;s the rest of the story&quot;, as Paul Harvey says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Book supplied by the ubiquitous Jon Pactor &#8217;71&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Algeo has a book out called: Harry Truman&#8217;s Excellent Adventure. &nbsp;The book chronicles Harry and Bess Truman&#8217;s exploits on a post&#8211;presidency road trip from Missouri to Broadway and back, plus a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}