{"id":97882,"date":"2025-04-14T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=97882"},"modified":"2020-09-28T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T17:08:39","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-602","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-602\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 14<sup>th<\/sup> \u00bd past 10 o&#8217;clock P.M.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"underscore\">O<\/span>, <span class=\"underscore\">fatal<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">day<\/span>. <span class=\"underscore\">O<\/span>, <span class=\"underscore\">noble<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Victim<\/span>. Treason has done its worst. <span class=\"underscore\">The<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">President<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">has<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">been<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Assassinated<\/span>. It has just been announced at my door that he was shot a half hour ago at Fords Theatre. <span class=\"underscore\">Is<\/span> it <span class=\"underscore\">possible<\/span>? I have just come from near the scene, it is <span class=\"underscore\">too<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">True<\/span>. 11 o&#8217;clock P.M.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97892 size-full\" title=\"Hoatio Nelson Taft's diary entry on the assasination of Abarham Lincoln.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hoatio-Nelson-Tafts-diary-entry-on-the-assasination-of-Abarham-Lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"Hoatio Nelson Taft's diary entry on the assasination of Abarham Lincoln.\" width=\"1067\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hoatio-Nelson-Tafts-diary-entry-on-the-assasination-of-Abarham-Lincoln.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hoatio-Nelson-Tafts-diary-entry-on-the-assasination-of-Abarham-Lincoln-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hoatio-Nelson-Tafts-diary-entry-on-the-assasination-of-Abarham-Lincoln-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hoatio-Nelson-Tafts-diary-entry-on-the-assasination-of-Abarham-Lincoln-768x392.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 14th \u00bd past 10 o&#8217;clock P.M. O, fatal day. O, noble Victim. Treason has done its worst. The President has been Assassinated. It has just been announced at my door that he was shot a half hour ago at Fords Theatre. Is it possible? I have just come from near the scene, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-diary-of-horatio-nelson-taft"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/horatio-nelson-taft-e1622981709398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}