{"id":80394,"date":"2024-12-01T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=80394"},"modified":"2024-12-01T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:16:05","slug":"when-men-were-men-sir-ernest-shackleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/when-men-were-men-sir-ernest-shackleton\/","title":{"rendered":"When Men Were Men: Sir Ernest Shackleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80395 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Shackleton2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Shackleton2.png 474w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Shackleton2-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ernestshackleton.net\/#about\">Sir Ernest Shackleton<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Ernest Henry Shackleton was born on the 15th February in 1874 in Kilkea House, County Kildare in Ireland.<\/h2>\n<h2>The second in a family of ten, his father Henry farmed at Kilkea. His mother Henrietta was descended from the Fitzmaurices, a family which had been in Kerry since the Norman times in the 13th century. Abraham Shackleton , was a Quaker from west Yorkshire who came to Ballitore in County Kildare and started a school in 1726. Famous past pupils include Cardinal Paul Cullen, Edmund Burke, famous political writer and orator and James Napper Tandy, United Irishman.<\/h2>\n<h2>In 1880 when Ernest was six his father gave up farming and went to Trinity College Dublin, and qualified to be a doctor. The family lived at 35 Marlborough Road in Dublin and in 1884 they moved to Sydenham in South London where Henry practiced for 30 years.<\/h2>\n<h2>After attending school at Dulwich College as a day boy Ernest, aged 16, joined the Merchant Navy. After 10 years he gave that up and joined a British Expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott to try and be the first to reach the South Pole.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ernestshackleton.net\/#about\">RTWT @ Ernest Shackleton<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80400 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Shack-Tough.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Shack-Tough.png 500w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Shack-Tough-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Shack-Tough-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-80397 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Endurance-982x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Endurance-982x1024.png 982w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Endurance-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Endurance-768x801.png 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Endurance-300x313.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Endurance-850x887.png 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Endurance.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Ernest Shackleton &nbsp; Ernest Henry Shackleton was born on the 15th February in 1874 in Kilkea House, County Kildare in Ireland. The second in a family of ten, his father Henry farmed at Kilkea. His mother Henrietta was descended from the Fitzmaurices, a family which had been in Kerry since the Norman times in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1247,8725],"tags":[18312,4866,424,247,18311,8051],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80408,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80394\/revisions\/80408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}