{"id":30405,"date":"2026-10-22T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30405"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:18:16","slug":"did-you-know-that-there-was-a-typographical-error-at-the-lincoln-memorial-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30405","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that there was a typographical error at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The mistake:<\/strong> In Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Second Inaugural Address, engraved on the memorial&#8217;s north interior wall, the word <strong>\u201cFUTURE\u201d<\/strong> was accidentally carved as <strong>\u201cEUTURE.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The correction:<\/strong> The engraver, Ernest C. Bairstow, had mistakenly carved an \u201cE\u201d instead of an \u201cF.\u201d The extra horizontal stroke was filled in to correct the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why you can still see it:<\/strong> The repair remains faintly visible in the marble, so visitors who know where to look can spot the evidence of the original mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what happened: The mistake: In Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Second Inaugural Address, engraved on the memorial&#8217;s north interior wall, the word \u201cFUTURE\u201d was accidentally carved as \u201cEUTURE.\u201d The correction: The engraver, Ernest C. Bairstow, had mistakenly carved an \u201cE\u201d instead of an \u201cF.\u201d The extra horizontal stroke was filled in to correct the letter. Why you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30406,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30405\/revisions\/30406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}