{"id":104206,"date":"2021-04-05T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=104206"},"modified":"2021-04-04T14:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:16:25","slug":"the-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-fifth\/","title":{"rendered":"The fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/51094777814\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-104207 size-full\" title=\"Lincoln's pay request\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Lincolns-pay-request.jpg\" alt=\"Lincoln's pay request\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Executive Mansion<br \/>\nApril 5th 1861<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Hon. S. P. Chase<br \/>\n<span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Secretary of the Treasury<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Dear Sir<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">On today, and on the <del>first<\/del> fifth<sup>1<\/sup> of each month, please send me a Warrant for the amount of my salary as President of the United States.<br \/>\n<span style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Your Obt. Servt.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">A. Lincoln<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li>Scrupulously honest, Abraham Lincoln noticed that the pay request he was about to sign credited him with four days he did not work.\u00a0 His first full day on the job as President was March 5.\u00a0 Lincoln corrected the error by crossing out <em>first<\/em> and writing in <em>fifth<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Mansion April 5th 1861 Hon. S. P. Chase Secretary of the Treasury Dear Sir On today, and on the first fifth1 of each month, please send me a Warrant for the amount of my salary as President of the United States. Your Obt. Servt. A. Lincoln Scrupulously honest, Abraham Lincoln noticed that the pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-abraham-lincoln-from-any-source"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}