{"id":34376,"date":"2023-11-10T06:15:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34376"},"modified":"2023-11-10T06:16:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:16:21","slug":"latest-reader-column-the-fall-of-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34376","title":{"rendered":"Latest Reader Column &#8211; The Fall of Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/126\/501\/126501\/header_1080x\/23503_53136974511_af7d9b0249_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe stack of 10,000 Lincoln books found across the street from Ford\u2019s<br \/>\nTheater. Far below Welty peers up at the photographer.<\/p>\n<p>The Column begins:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On a walk to the White House from our hotel we passed Ford\u2019s Theater. We had hoped to<br \/>\nsee a play there but Ford\u2019s wasn\u2019t showing summer productions. I\u2019ve enjoyed watching<br \/>\nmusicals there twice.<br \/>\nIn 1971 I had no idea that the infamous site of Lincoln\u2019s martyrdom was a functioning<br \/>\ntheater. Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, intended to close it permanently. It was<br \/>\nconfiscated, stripped bare and left a rotting shell. Thus, it remained for decades&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read it all here: <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2023\/11\/09\/126501-the-fall-of-lincoln\">Fall of Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stack of 10,000 Lincoln books found across the street from Ford\u2019s Theater. Far below Welty peers up at the photographer. The Column begins:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,148],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34378,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376\/revisions\/34378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}