{"id":6667,"date":"2010-07-15T08:13:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2010-07-15T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:13:22","slug":"how-the-bullet-proof-vest-could-have-might-have-changed-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/how-the-bullet-proof-vest-could-have-might-have-changed-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Bullet Proof Vest Could Have, Might Have Changed History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the June\/July issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/history-magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>History Magazine<\/em><\/a>, Gregory Peduto talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casimir_Zeglen\" target=\"_blank\">Casimir Zeglen<\/a>, the inventor of the bulletproof vest in the late 19th century.  The last paragraph offers some tantalizing alt-history what-ifs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPresident William McKinley purchased a Zeglen vest, but sadly the order did not arrive in time to prevent his assassination.  Following the killing, Teddy Roosevelt bought a waistcoat made of the magical material.  Even Archduke Franz Ferdinand purchased a jacket, which he wore on the day of his murder (the bullets struck his neck).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What if Teddy Kennedy never became President?  What if World War I was not triggered until 1922?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not an alt-history writer.  I&#8217;ll leave it to you guys to speculate.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, no link to the article, but <em>History Magazine<\/em> isn&#8217;t Web friendly.  Buy a copy and keep them solvent until such time as I overcome my laziness and send them another history piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the June\/July issue of History Magazine, Gregory Peduto talks about Casimir Zeglen, the inventor of the bulletproof vest in the late 19th century. The last paragraph offers some tantalizing alt-history what-ifs: President William McKinley purchased a Zeglen vest, but sadly the order did not arrive in time to prevent his assassination. Following the killing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}