{"id":93577,"date":"2020-05-29T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=93577"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:18:16","slug":"lincoln-at-decatur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/lincoln-at-decatur\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/49943345656\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Abraham Lincoln at 1860 Decatur Illinois Republican State Convention\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49943345656_7289a20f7f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Abraham Lincoln at 1860 Decatur Illinois Republican State Convention\" width=\"710\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a>In early May 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was in Decatur to attend the Illinois State Republican Convention a local photographer, Edward A. Barnwell, wanted to take a picture of &#8220;the biggest man&#8221; at the convention. After spotting Lincoln, Barnwell him to his People&#8217;s Ambrotype Gallery at 24 North Water Street to pose for this portrait. The next day, after Richard Oglesby introduced the &#8220;Rail Splitter,&#8221; convention delegates unanimously endorsed Lincoln for President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early May 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was in Decatur to attend the Illinois State Republican Convention a local photographer, Edward A. Barnwell, wanted to take a picture of &#8220;the biggest man&#8221; at the convention. After spotting Lincoln, Barnwell him to his People&#8217;s Ambrotype Gallery at 24 North Water Street to pose for this portrait. [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-93577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93577","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=93577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}