{"id":172592,"date":"2023-06-22T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=172592"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:03:09","slug":"extraordinary-connections-between-titans-submates-and-sabotage-victims-of-the-titanics-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=172592","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Extraordinary Connections between Titan&#8217;s Submates and Sabotage Victims of the Titanic&#8217;s Premeditated Sinking<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Wife of Titan pilot and OceanGate CEO is great-great-granddaughter of Macy\u2019s founder and his spouse made famous in James Cameron\u2019s smash movie as the elderly couple embracing on bed as Titanic went down<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/p>\n<p><em>The wife of the CEO of the missing Titanic tourist submarine is descended from a wealthy New York couple who drowned on the Titanic in 1912.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wendy Rush is married to Stockton Rush, one of the five men trapped in Titan after it vanished on Sunday during a trip to visit the historic wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>Her great-great-grandparents, Isidor and Ida Straus, died in the historic disaster \u2013 with Isidor being a co-founder of the Macy\u2019s department store.<\/p>\n<p><em>They were also immortalized in James Cameron\u2019s 1997 movie \u2018Titanic\u2019, where they are shown in an iconic scene, fictionally embracing on their bed as water rushed onto the ship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/06\/22\/08\/72405849-12220775-image-m-15_1687419757988.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/06\/22\/08\/72405849-12220775-image-m-15_1687419757988.jpg\" alt=\"comment image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: A New York Times article showing Mayor Mitchel speaking at dedication of a fountain erected at Straus Park 106th Street and West End Ave), in memory of Isidor Straus and his wife, who lost there lives on the Titanic, Sunday, April 25, 1915<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12220775\/Submersible-pilots-wife-descendant-famous-Titanic-couple-died-arm-arm.html\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12220775\/Submersible-pilots-wife-descendant-famous-Titanic-couple-died-arm-arm.html<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wife of Titan pilot and OceanGate CEO is great-great-granddaughter of Macy\u2019s founder and his spouse made famous in James Cameron\u2019s smash movie as the elderly couple embracing on bed as Titanic went down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}