{"id":153934,"date":"2025-05-10T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roomescapeartist.com\/?p=153934"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T17:21:22","slug":"history-roosevelt-room-palace-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomescapeartist.com\/2025\/05\/10\/history-roosevelt-room-palace-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Behind &#8220;The Roosevelt Room&#8221; by Palace Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u200a &#8221; So that&#8217;s the narrative backstory of what <em>The Roosevelt Room&#8217;s<\/em> about.&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GECuRsJMdVk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The year is 1915, and the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco has just been built to host the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), or The World&#8217;s Fair. 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