{"id":3409,"date":"2009-02-12T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T11:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/happy-200th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T11:01:53","slug":"happy-200th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/happy-200th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 200th Birthday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/abrahamlincoln\/\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, most of ScienceBlogs is celebrating Darwin&#8217;s birthday, but I don&#8217;t have anything interesting to say about that. Actually, I don&#8217;t have anything all that interesting to say about Lincoln, either, but given that he&#8217;s unquestionably one of the two greatest Presidents (neck and neck with Washington, both ahead of FDR), I wouldn&#8217;t want his birthday to pass without comment.<\/p>\n<p>So take a moment from the celebratory contemplation of finches and tortoises, and give a thought to one of the most important figures of American history. Without Lincoln, the world we live in would be a very different place, and probably not for the better.<\/p>\n<p>If you want something specific to focus on, here&#8217;s a link to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcenter.org\/LincolnSecondInaugural.html\">Second Inaugural Address<\/a>&#8212; somewhat less famous than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcenter.org\/GettysburgAddress.html\">Gettysburg Address<\/a>, but a wonderful bit of work in its own right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, most of ScienceBlogs is celebrating Darwin&#8217;s birthday, but I don&#8217;t have anything interesting to say about that. Actually, I don&#8217;t have anything all that interesting to say about Lincoln, either, but given that he&#8217;s unquestionably one of the two greatest Presidents (neck and neck with Washington, both ahead of FDR), I wouldn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/happy-200th-birthday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy 200th Birthday&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}