{"id":723,"date":"2007-11-19T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T18:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=723"},"modified":"2007-11-19T19:54:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T18:54:32","slug":"lincoln-at-gettysburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln at Gettysburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite sayings is: &#8220;It&#8217;s isn&#8217;t over till it&#8217;s over &#8211; and then it isn&#8217;t over.&#8221; You think something is history and then somebody or something comes along to change your perception of things.<br \/>\nThe child who finds that her parent is actually not her parent at all because she was in fact adopted. The wife who finds that her happy marriage was a sham because her husband has been having an affair for years. The relative you thought was dead who turns up alive.<br \/>\nThe discovery of the Gnostic Gospels that changes our view of Christianity. The body of Christopher Columbus in Seville Cathedral that turns out not be be him. The weapons of mass destruction held by Saddam Hussein that turn out not to exist.<br \/>\nIn this vein, there&#8217;s excitement among my American brethen because it may be that a new photograph has been discovered showing Abraham Lincoln arriving at Gettysburg to deliver <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gettysburg_Address\">his famous address<\/a>. You can check it put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news\/14619871\/detail.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite sayings is: &#8220;It&#8217;s isn&#8217;t over till it&#8217;s over &#8211; and then it isn&#8217;t over.&#8221; You think something is history and then somebody or something comes along to change your perception of things. The child who finds that her parent is actually not her parent at all because she was in fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}