{"id":2199,"date":"2018-04-26T06:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2018-04-26T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T19:59:01","slug":"can-you-please-tell-me-some-fun-facts-about-tip-oneill-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/26\/can-you-please-tell-me-some-fun-facts-about-tip-oneill-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you please tell me some fun facts about Tip O&#8217;Neill? Thank you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2192\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04262018-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2192\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04262018-1-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"Can you please tell me some fun facts about Tip O'Neill? Thank you!\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you please tell me some fun facts about Tip O&#8217;Neill? Thank you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1) Tip O&#8217;Neill collected donkey statues throughout his career. You can view some in the Tip O&#8217;Neill exhibit room on floor 2. 2) The nickname &#8220;Tip&#8221; came from a Canadian baseball player named James &#8220;Tip&#8221; O&#8217;Neill. The origin story is murky. 3) He graduated from Boston College in 1936. Read more about Tip in his memoirs, <em>Man of the House: the life and political memoirs of Speaker Tip O&#8217;Neill<\/em>: E840.8.O54 A3 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Tip O&#8217;Neill collected donkey statues throughout his career. You can view some in the Tip O&#8217;Neill exhibit room on floor 2. 2) The nickname &#8220;Tip&#8221; came from a Canadian baseball player named James &#8220;Tip&#8221; O&#8217;Neill. The origin story is murky. 3) He graduated from Boston College in 1936. Read more about Tip in his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/26\/can-you-please-tell-me-some-fun-facts-about-tip-oneill-thank-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can you please tell me some fun facts about Tip O&#8217;Neill? Thank you!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","category-politics","tag-tip-oneill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}